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2011 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports

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Table 8_2_3.2
Hospital patients with pneumonia who received the initial antibiotic dose within 6 hours of hospital arrival, by State, 2007-2009
	2009			2008		2007
State	Number	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total^a	551,011	94.8	0.03	93.5	0.03	93.3	0.04
Alabama	11,084	94.3	0.22	93.4	0.23	93.0	0.29
Alaska	830	92.5	0.91	91.6	0.98	91.8	1.22
Arizona	7,772	94.0	0.27	92.4	0.29	91.2	0.39
Arkansas	8,311	96.1	0.21	95.1	0.23	94.1	0.31
California	47,174	94.5	0.11	92.8	0.12	92.7	0.15
Colorado	6,045	95.3	0.27	94.1	0.31	94.1	0.38
Connecticut	5,483	95.1	0.29	94.1	0.31	93.7	0.38
Delaware	1,501	93.9	0.62	92.9	0.70	91.2	0.92
District of Columbia	850	80.0	1.37	76.2	1.40	76.1	1.61
Florida	30,100	94.9	0.13	93.4	0.15	92.1	0.18
Georgia	15,735	94.1	0.19	92.6	0.21	91.4	0.27
Hawaii	2,205	96.7	0.38	92.5	0.59	94.3	0.61
Idaho	2,106	96.6	0.39	94.8	0.49	96.2	0.53
Illinois	24,413	94.7	0.14	93.5	0.15	93.8	0.18
Indiana	13,988	95.6	0.17	94.9	0.19	95.0	0.22
Iowa	6,520	96.6	0.22	96.2	0.23	96.5	0.27
Kansas	5,407	95.1	0.29	93.7	0.32	93.4	0.40
Kentucky	13,981	95.0	0.19	94.0	0.20	93.5	0.26
Louisiana	9,872	93.6	0.25	92.5	0.27	92.0	0.33
Maine	3,096	96.9	0.31	96.3	0.34	95.3	0.45
Maryland	10,267	93.7	0.24	92.7	0.26	92.5	0.32
Massachusetts	13,208	94.9	0.19	94.4	0.20	94.3	0.25
Michigan	20,885	95.6	0.14	94.7	0.16	95.2	0.18
Minnesota	8,274	95.7	0.22	95.5	0.22	94.8	0.29
Mississippi	6,967	94.5	0.27	92.4	0.32	91.9	0.40
Missouri	13,968	95.0	0.18	93.4	0.20	93.6	0.24
Montana	2,372	96.2	0.39	96.3	0.40	94.1	0.61
Nebraska	3,582	96.5	0.31	96.4	0.29	96.8	0.34
Nevada	2,354	94.9	0.45	91.0	0.58	90.1	0.73
New Hampshire	2,379	96.9	0.36	96.2	0.39	96.3	0.47
New Jersey	14,208	96.1	0.16	95.1	0.18	95.5	0.20
New Mexico	2,917	91.1	0.53	89.6	0.54	90.2	0.63
New York	29,933	91.8	0.16	90.9	0.17	91.5	0.19
North Carolina	17,534	94.8	0.17	94.0	0.18	93.5	0.23
North Dakota	1,707	94.7	0.54	96.6	0.45	95.5	0.60
Ohio	23,070	95.2	0.14	94.4	0.15	94.6	0.17
Oklahoma	10,502	94.6	0.22	93.7	0.23	94.0	0.26
Oregon	6,379	96.0	0.25	95.8	0.25	95.6	0.32
Pennsylvania	31,209	95.1	0.12	94.3	0.13	94.1	0.16
Puerto Rico	3,840	61.9	0.78	61.7	0.79	62.3	0.96
Rhode Island	1,737	93.4	0.60	93.1	0.63	95.8	0.55
South Carolina	8,829	95.8	0.21	94.4	0.24	94.2	0.31
South Dakota	1,813	94.5	0.54	96.5	0.42	96.3	0.51
Tennessee	17,355	95.3	0.16	94.2	0.18	93.8	0.22
Texas	39,143	94.5	0.12	92.9	0.13	92.7	0.15
Utah	2,804	96.5	0.35	94.9	0.41	94.3	0.50
Vermont	1,427	97.6	0.40	97.7	0.42	97.5	0.52
Virginia	12,130	95.3	0.19	94.3	0.21	93.9	0.26
Washington	9,159	95.2	0.22	93.4	0.26	93.9	0.30
West Virginia	6,700	92.2	0.33	92.1	0.33	91.3	0.42
Wisconsin	10,546	96.8	0.17	96.4	0.18	96.8	0.20
Wyoming	1,180	95.5	0.60	95.0	0.61	96.6	0.63

^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_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/nhqrdr11/8_respiratorydiseases/T8_2_3_2.html