Table 8_2_2-2

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 8_2_2.2
Hospital patients with pneumonia who had blood cultures collected before antibiotics were administered, by State, 2005 and 2006
State	2006		2005
State	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
United States^a	90.0	0.5	82.5	0.6
Alabama	88.6	0.3	79.6	0.4
Alaska	91.9	1.1	87.4	1.2
Arizona	87.3	0.4	78.5	0.4
Arkansas	91.6	0.4	84.4	0.4
California	89.3	0.1	82.0	0.2
Colorado	91.7	0.4	83.2	0.5
Connecticut	89.8	0.4	84.1	0.4
Delaware	85.0	1.0	78.7	1.0
District of Columbia	82.8	1.1	70.9	1.2
Florida	88.3	0.2	82.3	0.2
Georgia	89.2	0.3	80.7	0.3
Hawaii	88.3	0.7	84.0	0.7
Idaho	92.9	0.6	85.9	0.8
Illinois	91.2	0.2	83.9	0.2
Indiana	91.0	0.3	83.5	0.3
Iowa	93.8	0.3	85.3	0.4
Kansas	94.3	0.4	84.8	0.5
Kentucky	89.9	0.3	82.3	0.3
Louisiana	89.1	0.3	80.4	0.4
Maine	88.4	0.6	83.1	0.6
Maryland	87.0	0.3	82.8	0.3
Massachusetts	89.8	0.3	81.5	0.3
Michigan	89.9	0.2	83.4	0.2
Minnesota	91.8	0.3	82.8	0.4
Mississippi	90.3	0.4	83.4	0.4
Missouri	91.6	0.2	84.1	0.3
Montana	91.9	0.7	87.0	0.7
Nebraska	95.2	0.4	86.5	0.5
Nevada	82.5	0.7	69.4	0.8
New Hampshire	91.7	0.6	82.7	0.7
New Jersey	94.0	0.2	90.1	0.2
New Mexico	88.7	0.6	81.9	0.6
New York	87.5	0.2	81.5	0.2
North Carolina	90.6	0.2	84.0	0.3
North Dakota	94.4	0.7	83.9	0.9
Ohio	91.3	0.2	83.8	0.2
Oklahoma	92.0	0.3	85.0	0.3
Oregon	91.3	0.4	82.3	0.5
Pennsylvania	90.9	0.2	84.2	0.2
Puerto Rico	70.4	0.8	65.4	0.7
Rhode Island	89.9	0.6	82.9	0.8
South Carolina	91.8	0.3	84.6	0.4
South Dakota	93.7	0.7	82.9	0.8
Tennessee	89.3	0.2	81.2	0.3
Texas	89.7	0.2	82.4	0.2
Utah	90.3	0.5	82.2	0.6
Vermont	92.6	0.8	86.0	1.0
Virginia	90.8	0.3	84.3	0.3
Washington	91.1	0.3	84.4	0.4
West Virginia	90.3	0.4	80.9	0.4
Wisconsin	93.9	0.2	86.7	0.3
Wyoming	89.2	1.0	82.9	1.1

^a The estimate is based on State-level estimates.

Key: SE: standard error.

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

Current as of September 2009

Internet Citation: Table 8_2_2-2: 2008 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. September 2009. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://archive.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr08/8_respiratorydiseases/T8_2_2-2.html