T12_1_3_2

2011 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_3.2
Adult surgery patients who received prophylactic antibiotics within 1 hour prior to surgical incision, by State, 2005-2009
	2009			2008		2007		2006		2005
State	Number	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total^a	1,079,415	96.1	0.02	93.1	0.0	88.8	0.0	84.5	0.0	81.0	0.1
Alabama	17,257	95.2	0.16	93.6	0.2	89.6	0.2	84.1	0.3	84.3	0.3
Alaska	2,505	94.5	0.46	87.1	0.7	85.8	0.8	76.3	1.1	64.8	3.2
Arizona	20,215	94.9	0.15	92.4	0.2	85.6	0.3	78.7	0.3	73.6	0.6
Arkansas	12,388	95.1	0.19	92.5	0.2	88.3	0.3	81.9	0.3	77.8	0.4
California	85,552	95.7	0.07	92.7	0.1	86.4	0.1	80.0	0.1	72.8	0.3
Colorado	14,766	95.4	0.17	92.2	0.2	84.6	0.3	84.7	0.3	80.6	0.8
Connecticut	9,737	95.8	0.20	94.2	0.2	88.1	0.3	86.2	0.4	90.0	1.0
Delaware	2,952	96.6	0.33	95.3	0.4	91.4	0.5	88.9	0.6	87.6	0.6
District of Columbia	2,256	94.3	0.49	92.0	0.6	82.5	0.8	84.1	0.7	84.2	1.5
Florida	62,011	97.0	0.07	94.5	0.1	90.8	0.1	86.5	0.1	80.0	0.2
Georgia	24,441	95.1	0.14	91.2	0.2	85.6	0.2	79.9	0.3	74.6	0.4
Hawaii	3,900	96.4	0.30	93.2	0.4	89.4	0.5	85.0	0.6	63.1	1.5
Idaho	5,220	95.2	0.30	92.7	0.4	86.5	0.5	86.2	0.5	79.6	0.8
Illinois	43,086	96.2	0.09	93.9	0.1	91.1	0.1	85.5	0.2	84.0	0.2
Indiana	27,576	96.3	0.11	92.9	0.2	87.5	0.2	82.5	0.2	78.6	0.3
Iowa	11,379	97.1	0.16	93.0	0.2	89.5	0.3	89.0	0.3	85.2	0.5
Kansas	14,508	95.2	0.18	91.9	0.2	87.2	0.3	83.0	0.3	82.5	0.5
Kentucky	21,106	96.9	0.12	94.0	0.2	88.5	0.2	85.0	0.2	84.4	0.4
Louisiana	19,130	95.6	0.15	89.8	0.2	85.3	0.3	76.9	0.3	76.7	0.7
Maine	6,272	97.4	0.20	97.0	0.2	93.2	0.3	90.3	0.4	83.0	0.6
Maryland	20,644	95.3	0.15	93.2	0.2	90.4	0.2	88.0	0.2	84.5	0.3
Massachusetts	24,842	96.9	0.11	95.0	0.1	92.6	0.2	89.0	0.2	89.9	0.3
Michigan	43,306	96.4	0.09	93.8	0.1	92.1	0.1	88.7	0.1	84.3	0.2
Minnesota	19,374	95.4	0.15	92.7	0.2	87.4	0.2	84.3	0.3	80.1	0.6
Mississippi	12,761	96.7	0.16	92.3	0.3	85.1	0.3	83.4	0.3	75.3	0.4
Missouri	23,774	96.5	0.12	93.5	0.2	90.1	0.2	86.4	0.2	85.8	0.3
Montana	5,297	96.9	0.24	95.6	0.3	94.1	0.3	91.2	0.4	90.1	0.4
Nebraska	10,231	96.1	0.19	93.6	0.3	93.4	0.3	88.5	0.3	88.2	0.5
Nevada	7,234	96.4	0.22	89.0	0.4	80.9	0.5	72.6	0.6	70.0	1.0
New Hampshire	4,739	97.6	0.22	96.1	0.3	93.1	0.4	88.2	0.5	76.9	0.8
New Jersey	23,581	97.0	0.11	95.4	0.1	92.3	0.2	91.0	0.2	88.4	0.2
New Mexico	5,747	94.6	0.30	90.3	0.4	84.5	0.5	80.6	0.5	80.7	0.6
New York	47,440	95.6	0.09	92.8	0.1	89.6	0.1	83.8	0.2	73.9	0.3
North Carolina	36,325	97.3	0.08	95.7	0.1	92.2	0.1	89.0	0.2	85.5	0.3
North Dakota	3,311	95.7	0.35	94.3	0.4	87.4	0.6	89.3	0.5	86.6	0.7
Ohio	48,503	96.3	0.09	93.2	0.1	89.0	0.1	84.9	0.2	78.6	0.4
Oklahoma	18,446	96.4	0.14	93.3	0.2	90.7	0.2	87.1	0.2	85.3	0.4
Oregon	12,503	93.9	0.21	88.7	0.3	83.3	0.3	80.0	0.4	77.4	0.6
Pennsylvania	78,247	96.8	0.06	93.9	0.1	89.9	0.1	83.5	0.1	77.5	0.3
Puerto Rico	8,002	75.1	0.48	70.7	0.5	68.1	0.6	65.6	0.6	63.1	0.7
Rhode Island	3,491	96.6	0.31	92.1	0.5	87.8	0.5	90.5	0.6	93.9	0.9
South Carolina	17,488	96.8	0.13	94.9	0.2	92.6	0.2	90.3	0.2	87.7	0.3
South Dakota	5,053	96.5	0.26	95.2	0.3	92.1	0.4	92.6	0.4	86.2	0.6
Tennessee	26,723	96.0	0.12	92.0	0.2	87.4	0.2	83.5	0.2	81.4	0.4
Texas	77,926	96.2	0.07	92.6	0.1	86.3	0.1	79.4	0.1	74.2	0.3
Utah	7,680	96.2	0.22	93.9	0.3	86.3	0.4	81.7	0.4	74.3	0.7
Vermont	2,043	96.4	0.41	94.6	0.5	93.3	0.6	89.2	0.7	82.5	0.8
Virginia	26,488	96.2	0.12	94.1	0.1	90.0	0.2	86.9	0.2	83.4	0.4
Washington	19,281	94.8	0.16	90.6	0.2	88.9	0.2	84.3	0.3	81.0	0.7
West Virginia	11,500	96.2	0.18	93.0	0.2	90.8	0.3	86.7	0.3	82.5	0.3
Wisconsin	26,853	96.0	0.12	92.9	0.2	91.3	0.2	87.9	0.2	86.1	0.3
Wyoming	2,327	92.2	0.56	84.6	0.7	85.8	0.7	72.9	0.9	78.9	1.8

^a. 2009 data do not include data from the U.S. territories (Guam, Puerto Rico, and Virgin Islands); other years do not include Guam and U.S. Virgin Islands.

Key: SE: standard error.

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

Page last reviewed October 2014

Internet Citation: T12_1_3_2: 2011 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. October 2014. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://archive.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr11/12_patientsafety/T12_1_3_2.html