Table 11_2_3-2

2008 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports

The National Healthcare Quality Report (NHQR) is a comprehensive national overview of quality of health care in the United States. It is organized around four dimensions of quality of care: effectiveness, patient safety, timeliness, and patient centeredness.

Table 11_2_3.2
Median time in minutes from arrival to initiation of a thrombolytic agent in heart attack patients with ST segment elevation or left bundle branch block (LBBB) on electrocardiogram (ECG), by State, 2005 and 2006
State	2006	2005
State	Median time (minutes)	Median time (minutes)
United States^a	39	43
Alabama	42	47
Alaska	86	42
Arizona	62	46
Arkansas	30	37
California	32	35
Colorado	39	35
Connecticut	48	34
Delaware	34	33
District of Columbia	53	120
Florida	40	40
Georgia	30	33
Hawaii	34	44
Idaho	45	50
Illinois	46	54
Indiana	29	28
Iowa	28	38
Kansas	40	37
Kentucky	33	37
Louisiana	45	50
Maine	32	33
Maryland	46	50
Massachusetts	36	39
Michigan	39	41
Minnesota	32	44
Mississippi	38	41
Missouri	39	37
Montana	39	55
Nebraska	40	45
Nevada	38	35
New Hampshire	52	51
New Jersey	38	40
New Mexico	43	50
New York	35	40
North Carolina	32	35
North Dakota	30	34
Ohio	35	41
Oklahoma	36	35
Oregon	35	33
Pennsylvania	40	38
Puerto Rico	54	63
Rhode Island	34	36
South Carolina	28	41
South Dakota	38	45
Tennessee	33	38
Texas	40	44
Utah	43	38
Vermont	32	38
Virginia	36	39
Washington	51	58
West Virginia	33	38
Wisconsin	48	42
Wyoming	30	52

^a The estimate for the Total row is based on State-level estimates whereas the estimates for the demographic categories are based on patient/episode-level data.

Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Medicare Quality Improvement Organization Program.

Current as of September 2009

Internet Citation: Table 11_2_3-2: 2008 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. September 2009. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://archive.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr08/11_timeliness/T11_2_3-2.html