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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 8_2_2.2
Hospital patients with pneumonia who had blood cultures collected before antibiotics were administered, by State, 2005-2009
	2009			2008		2007		2006		2005
State	Number	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total^a	501,041	94.8	0.03	92.9	0.04	90.8	0.04	90.0	0.04	82.9	0.05
Alabama	8,531	95.3	0.23	93.1	0.27	89.7	0.32	88.6	0.33	79.6	0.35
Alaska	824	93.4	0.86	90.4	1.04	92.4	1.03	91.9	1.08	87.4	1.22
Arizona	6,979	93.6	0.29	90.8	0.34	88.1	0.38	87.3	0.36	78.5	0.41
Arkansas	6,195	95.0	0.28	93.1	0.31	91.3	0.36	91.6	0.35	84.4	0.37
California	47,277	94.1	0.11	92.4	0.12	90.5	0.14	89.3	0.14	82.0	0.16
Colorado	5,549	95.1	0.29	93.9	0.33	91.6	0.40	91.7	0.39	83.2	0.46
Connecticut	5,715	94.7	0.30	91.1	0.37	90.6	0.38	89.8	0.39	84.1	0.43
Delaware	1,436	92.9	0.68	89.7	0.85	87.7	0.93	85.0	0.97	78.7	1.02
District of Columbia	705	86.0	1.31	82.9	1.45	80.5	1.36	82.8	1.11	70.8	1.17
Florida	29,171	95.9	0.12	94.2	0.14	89.8	0.17	88.3	0.17	82.3	0.18
Georgia	14,186	95.0	0.18	92.9	0.22	90.0	0.26	89.2	0.25	80.7	0.28
Hawaii	2,276	93.5	0.52	89.7	0.67	87.8	0.76	88.3	0.69	84.0	0.71
Idaho	1,886	97.0	0.39	95.0	0.54	94.0	0.59	92.9	0.63	85.9	0.81
Illinois	22,131	95.6	0.14	93.4	0.16	91.9	0.17	91.2	0.18	83.9	0.20
Indiana	11,852	94.1	0.22	92.9	0.23	92.1	0.26	91.0	0.26	83.5	0.30
Iowa	5,384	96.1	0.26	95.4	0.28	94.4	0.32	93.8	0.33	85.3	0.40
Kansas	3,932	95.3	0.34	94.3	0.36	93.5	0.42	94.3	0.40	84.8	0.47
Kentucky	10,948	94.2	0.22	92.8	0.24	90.9	0.28	89.9	0.28	82.3	0.30
Louisiana	7,795	94.4	0.26	92.1	0.30	89.1	0.34	89.1	0.34	80.4	0.36
Maine	2,821	94.2	0.44	90.0	0.57	89.6	0.59	88.4	0.57	83.0	0.64
Maryland	9,573	91.3	0.29	89.8	0.31	86.9	0.37	87.0	0.33	82.8	0.33
Massachusetts	11,559	93.6	0.23	91.9	0.26	89.5	0.29	89.8	0.26	81.5	0.31
Michigan	18,369	95.1	0.16	93.2	0.18	91.3	0.20	89.9	0.20	83.4	0.23
Minnesota	6,371	94.8	0.28	94.0	0.30	92.3	0.33	91.8	0.34	82.8	0.39
Mississippi	5,265	95.0	0.30	93.4	0.33	92.1	0.37	90.2	0.40	83.4	0.42
Missouri	11,772	96.2	0.18	94.9	0.19	92.2	0.24	91.6	0.24	84.1	0.28
Montana	1,562	95.1	0.55	93.3	0.65	91.2	0.77	91.9	0.68	87.0	0.74
Nebraska	2,353	96.4	0.38	96.2	0.38	94.8	0.44	95.2	0.41	86.5	0.50
Nevada	2,336	93.3	0.52	90.1	0.60	86.1	0.74	82.5	0.74	69.4	0.78
New Hampshire	2,323	95.6	0.43	94.7	0.46	92.7	0.55	91.6	0.56	82.7	0.72
New Jersey	15,017	96.7	0.15	95.5	0.17	93.6	0.20	94.0	0.18	90.1	0.21
New Mexico	2,843	91.2	0.53	88.7	0.58	87.1	0.62	88.7	0.55	81.9	0.60
New York	29,830	93.7	0.14	90.7	0.17	88.4	0.19	87.5	0.18	81.5	0.19
North Carolina	17,052	95.2	0.16	93.3	0.20	91.5	0.23	90.6	0.22	84.0	0.25
North Dakota	1,353	95.3	0.57	92.4	0.73	93.6	0.72	94.4	0.67	83.9	0.89
Ohio	21,841	95.6	0.14	94.0	0.16	91.5	0.18	91.3	0.17	83.8	0.19
Oklahoma	8,503	94.8	0.24	93.1	0.26	92.3	0.28	92.0	0.29	85.0	0.33
Oregon	5,755	94.4	0.30	92.3	0.35	91.9	0.38	91.2	0.41	82.3	0.50
Pennsylvania	28,747	95.0	0.13	93.2	0.15	91.6	0.17	90.9	0.16	84.2	0.19
Puerto Rico	2,561	70.7	0.90	70.7	0.92	68.3	0.93	70.4	0.77	65.4	0.66
Rhode Island	1,591	94.8	0.55	93.5	0.60	91.2	0.62	89.9	0.61	82.9	0.75
South Carolina	8,403	96.0	0.21	94.8	0.24	91.2	0.32	91.8	0.30	84.6	0.35
South Dakota	986	93.8	0.77	93.0	0.77	93.3	0.76	93.6	0.74	82.9	0.79
Tennessee	15,057	95.8	0.16	93.9	0.19	92.1	0.23	89.3	0.24	81.2	0.27
Texas	36,474	94.9	0.12	92.9	0.13	90.7	0.15	89.6	0.16	82.4	0.18
Utah	2,354	95.0	0.45	93.6	0.49	89.2	0.59	90.3	0.54	82.1	0.59
Vermont	1,270	95.5	0.58	96.2	0.56	93.8	0.71	92.6	0.77	86.0	0.95
Virginia	11,875	94.9	0.20	94.1	0.22	91.9	0.25	90.8	0.26	84.2	0.29
Washington	8,535	94.7	0.24	92.8	0.28	90.5	0.32	91.1	0.32	84.4	0.35
West Virginia	6,351	93.8	0.30	92.8	0.33	90.2	0.39	90.2	0.37	80.9	0.44
Wisconsin	9,133	95.9	0.21	94.7	0.23	94.3	0.24	93.9	0.25	86.7	0.30
Wyoming	995	93.5	0.78	88.3	1.00	90.4	0.93	89.2	0.99	82.9	1.09

^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: T8_2_2_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/nhqrdr11/8_respiratorydiseases/T8_2_2_2.html