T8_2_4_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 8_2_4.2
Hospital patients with pneumonia who received the initial antibiotic consistent with current recommendations,^a by State, 2005-2009
	2009			2008		2007		2006		2005
State	Number	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total^b	362,176	91.1	0.05	89.0	0.05	88.7	0.05	85.2	0.05	79.9	0.05
Alabama	7,671	88.0	0.37	86.2	0.37	86.9	0.37	83.0	0.37	78.9	0.35
Alaska	704	90.9	1.08	86.6	1.28	85.3	1.48	82.8	1.49	73.6	1.60
Arizona	5,857	91.1	0.37	89.0	0.39	89.3	0.38	87.3	0.38	85.2	0.37
Arkansas	5,753	90.1	0.39	87.4	0.43	86.6	0.44	83.6	0.46	78.3	0.43
California	30,558	91.5	0.16	89.8	0.17	89.4	0.18	84.0	0.18	78.5	0.18
Colorado	4,281	89.7	0.46	88.5	0.49	89.8	0.47	86.9	0.50	82.7	0.48
Connecticut	3,293	93.4	0.43	92.5	0.45	91.7	0.46	88.9	0.51	78.1	0.60
Delaware	987	92.0	0.86	92.8	0.89	91.8	0.89	87.6	0.96	85.7	0.92
District of Columbia	539	91.3	1.22	87.1	1.41	88.4	1.26	84.5	1.24	80.5	1.16
Florida	20,678	93.5	0.17	90.1	0.21	88.9	0.21	85.9	0.20	79.8	0.21
Georgia	10,504	91.3	0.28	88.4	0.32	87.4	0.32	84.1	0.31	78.3	0.31
Hawaii	1,596	89.2	0.78	86.3	0.94	86.1	0.91	80.1	0.94	76.8	0.87
Idaho	1,534	92.1	0.69	92.7	0.69	90.4	0.82	88.4	0.83	83.2	0.87
Illinois	14,516	88.8	0.26	87.8	0.26	88.4	0.25	85.2	0.26	78.1	0.24
Indiana	9,225	89.7	0.32	87.4	0.34	88.1	0.33	85.3	0.33	81.3	0.32
Iowa	4,472	90.9	0.43	89.7	0.44	90.1	0.44	88.3	0.45	83.0	0.45
Kansas	3,609	86.4	0.57	85.7	0.55	87.0	0.54	81.8	0.59	75.7	0.54
Kentucky	9,451	89.2	0.32	86.6	0.35	86.8	0.35	83.7	0.35	78.1	0.34
Louisiana	6,089	87.9	0.42	85.0	0.45	82.9	0.45	79.9	0.45	74.6	0.41
Maine	1,990	93.4	0.56	92.5	0.58	92.4	0.59	89.2	0.61	84.1	0.67
Maryland	6,477	91.6	0.34	90.8	0.36	89.7	0.39	87.1	0.38	82.5	0.36
Massachusetts	8,391	93.1	0.28	91.6	0.31	91.3	0.30	88.3	0.32	81.1	0.33
Michigan	13,326	93.2	0.22	91.9	0.23	92.3	0.22	89.6	0.24	85.4	0.24
Minnesota	5,425	90.7	0.40	89.3	0.41	89.2	0.42	85.2	0.44	80.9	0.41
Mississippi	4,856	87.5	0.47	86.1	0.49	84.1	0.52	80.0	0.52	76.4	0.47
Missouri	8,837	90.0	0.32	88.1	0.32	87.5	0.33	83.1	0.35	78.6	0.33
Montana	1,591	89.6	0.76	90.6	0.74	88.5	0.79	85.5	0.83	83.4	0.79
Nebraska	2,367	90.7	0.60	91.5	0.54	91.7	0.54	90.8	0.54	85.7	0.55
Nevada	1,771	92.6	0.62	89.4	0.74	88.6	0.77	85.7	0.71	82.4	0.67
New Hampshire	1,571	94.3	0.59	93.6	0.61	92.4	0.65	91.3	0.63	85.9	0.70
New Jersey	9,142	93.5	0.26	91.9	0.28	91.8	0.28	88.8	0.29	82.5	0.30
New Mexico	2,340	89.7	0.63	85.4	0.71	84.3	0.72	83.9	0.65	79.4	0.63
New York	18,383	91.2	0.21	89.2	0.23	89.9	0.22	87.4	0.22	79.8	0.22
North Carolina	11,838	91.0	0.26	89.4	0.28	89.5	0.29	86.3	0.29	80.1	0.29
North Dakota	1,102	86.6	1.03	86.8	1.01	86.3	1.05	83.3	1.07	80.2	0.99
Ohio	15,755	91.3	0.22	90.6	0.23	89.6	0.23	86.5	0.23	81.0	0.22
Oklahoma	7,033	90.2	0.35	87.9	0.37	88.5	0.37	84.8	0.39	81.0	0.37
Oregon	4,396	90.2	0.45	90.2	0.44	89.9	0.44	86.0	0.51	83.1	0.51
Pennsylvania	19,133	92.4	0.19	90.3	0.21	89.5	0.21	85.3	0.23	79.9	0.22
Puerto Rico	3,373	71.6	0.78	72.7	0.79	71.9	0.82	65.8	0.75	64.4	0.66
Rhode Island	1,071	91.9	0.84	90.4	0.90	93.7	0.67	89.6	0.75	86.4	0.75
South Carolina	5,610	92.7	0.35	89.3	0.40	88.8	0.40	85.3	0.42	79.9	0.41
South Dakota	1,213	90.0	0.86	89.7	0.85	90.0	0.82	85.4	0.89	80.7	0.83
Tennessee	11,592	90.8	0.27	87.8	0.30	86.9	0.31	84.1	0.30	79.2	0.29
Texas	26,042	90.0	0.19	87.9	0.20	87.0	0.19	82.3	0.22	77.2	0.20
Utah	2,279	92.2	0.56	90.6	0.61	90.0	0.58	86.6	0.61	83.5	0.61
Vermont	1,006	93.2	0.79	94.3	0.77	93.2	0.85	89.8	0.95	84.0	1.03
Virginia	8,122	92.5	0.29	90.3	0.33	89.8	0.34	86.0	0.34	81.5	0.33
Washington	6,089	92.4	0.34	89.2	0.39	88.4	0.40	84.3	0.45	77.6	0.45
West Virginia	4,662	89.0	0.46	86.7	0.50	87.4	0.48	85.1	0.47	79.1	0.46
Wisconsin	6,558	92.8	0.32	91.8	0.33	90.9	0.34	88.8	0.35	85.1	0.34
Wyoming	891	90.8	0.97	87.8	1.06	89.2	1.01	83.5	1.07	80.0	1.04

^a. Patients with health care-associated pneumonia were excluded from the denominator.

^b. 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_4_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_4_2.html