Table 12_1_2-2

2010 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 12_1_2.2
Adult surgery patients who received appropriate timing of antibiotics,^a by State, 2005-2008
	2008		2007		2006		2005
State	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total	91.4	0.0	86.4	0.0	80.3	0.0	74.9	0.0
Alabama	91.5	0.2	86.6	0.2	79.4	0.2	75.7	0.3
Alaska	87.6	0.5	84.0	0.6	77.8	0.7	68.7	2.2
Arizona	90.0	0.2	82.9	0.2	75.1	0.2	63.2	0.5
Arkansas	91.0	0.2	86.3	0.2	79.4	0.2	74.1	0.3
California	89.9	0.1	82.7	0.1	74.4	0.1	65.5	0.2
Colorado	91.2	0.2	84.1	0.2	79.7	0.3	76.2	0.6
Connecticut	93.1	0.2	87.3	0.2	83.5	0.3	89.8	0.7
Delaware	92.9	0.3	89.3	0.4	85.4	0.5	82.6	0.5
District of Columbia	90.3	0.5	83.0	0.6	77.4	0.6	69.7	1.3
Florida	92.3	0.1	86.7	0.1	80.7	0.1	72.2	0.2
Georgia	89.6	0.1	82.6	0.2	75.4	0.2	67.9	0.3
Hawaii	89.4	0.4	85.4	0.4	78.2	0.5	59.2	1.1
Idaho	90.2	0.3	82.7	0.4	80.4	0.4	71.3	0.7
Illinois	91.7	0.1	87.2	0.1	80.3	0.1	76.1	0.2
Indiana	90.9	0.1	85.0	0.2	78.7	0.2	70.0	0.3
Iowa	92.3	0.2	87.1	0.2	84.2	0.2	80.6	0.4
Kansas	90.3	0.2	85.1	0.2	77.6	0.3	71.7	0.4
Kentucky	91.2	0.1	84.8	0.2	80.3	0.2	80.0	0.3
Louisiana	85.8	0.2	80.3	0.2	70.9	0.2	67.6	0.5
Maine	96.3	0.2	93.2	0.2	89.8	0.3	81.8	0.4
Maryland	92.0	0.1	88.1	0.2	82.6	0.2	75.7	0.2
Massachusetts	94.1	0.1	91.1	0.1	84.8	0.2	84.7	0.2
Michigan	93.3	0.1	91.2	0.1	86.7	0.1	81.3	0.2
Minnesota	92.9	0.1	88.4	0.2	83.2	0.2	74.8	0.5
Mississippi	89.9	0.2	83.2	0.2	78.0	0.3	68.2	0.3
Missouri	92.0	0.1	87.8	0.1	82.4	0.2	77.6	0.3
Montana	94.7	0.2	91.1	0.3	88.7	0.3	85.8	0.3
Nebraska	91.8	0.2	90.3	0.2	86.5	0.2	81.9	0.4
Nevada	86.0	0.3	75.8	0.4	66.1	0.4	54.6	0.8
New Hampshire	95.3	0.2	92.4	0.3	87.3	0.3	75.7	0.6
New Jersey	94.2	0.1	91.4	0.1	88.6	0.1	83.8	0.2
New Mexico	89.7	0.3	83.6	0.4	79.3	0.4	76.5	0.5
New York	91.6	0.1	87.3	0.1	80.2	0.1	68.9	0.2
North Carolina	94.1	0.1	90.4	0.1	85.2	0.1	80.2	0.2
North Dakota	93.9	0.3	85.9	0.4	81.9	0.5	77.0	0.6
Ohio	92.2	0.1	87.3	0.1	80.0	0.1	67.5	0.3
Oklahoma	91.7	0.1	88.4	0.2	83.7	0.2	83.8	0.3
Oregon	88.8	0.2	83.1	0.2	77.2	0.3	74.9	0.5
Pennsylvania	92.8	0.1	87.8	0.1	79.5	0.1	73.3	0.2
Puerto Rico	64.6	0.4	61.1	0.4	65.1	0.4	59.7	0.5
Rhode Island	92.9	0.3	88.2	0.4	84.5	0.5	86.1	0.9
South Carolina	93.4	0.1	89.7	0.2	85.5	0.2	82.1	0.2
South Dakota	95.1	0.2	92.5	0.3	91.6	0.3	85.2	0.4
Tennessee	90.4	0.1	85.3	0.2	80.0	0.2	76.7	0.3
Texas	89.9	0.1	82.6	0.1	74.2	0.1	69.9	0.2
Utah	90.5	0.2	82.3	0.3	76.4	0.3	68.5	0.5
Vermont	95.1	0.3	93.2	0.4	88.6	0.5	79.2	0.6
Virginia	92.5	0.1	87.9	0.1	83.7	0.2	78.1	0.3
Washington	91.2	0.1	87.5	0.2	81.1	0.2	76.5	0.5
West Virginia	91.9	0.2	88.2	0.2	84.1	0.2	79.4	0.3
Wisconsin	92.0	0.1	89.6	0.1	84.1	0.2	76.3	0.3
Wyoming	84.5	0.5	85.7	0.5	76.1	0.6	78.3	1.3

^a Appropriate timing of antibiotics includes receiving prophylactic antibiotics within 1 hour prior to surgical incision and discontinuing the antibiotics within 24 hours after surgery end time.

Key: SE: standard error.

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

Page last reviewed October 2014

Internet Citation: Table 12_1_2-2: 2010 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. October 2014. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://archive.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr10/12_patientsafety/T12_1_2-2.html