Table 10_1_5-1
2008 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports
Population group | 2006 | 2005 | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Percent | SE | Percent | SE | ||
Totalb | 80.9 | 0.0 | 75.2 | 0.2 | |
Gender | Male | 78.6 | 0.0 | 71.4 | 0.1 |
Female | 81.2 | 0.0 | 76.7 | 0.1 | |
Race | White | 80.7 | 0.0 | 75.2 | 0.0 |
Black | 79.9 | 0.1 | 75.2 | 0.1 | |
Hispanic | 74.7 | 0.1 | 69.8 | 0.2 | |
Native American | 80.8 | 0.5 | 77.4 | 0.7 | |
Asian | 78.0 | 0.3 | 70.8 | 0.5 | |
Age | Under 65 | 82.1 | 0.0 | 77.5 | 0.1 |
65–74 | 79.2 | 0.1 | 72.8 | 0.1 | |
75–84 | 78.0 | 0.1 | 71.7 | 0.1 | |
85 and over | 74.2 | 0.1 | 68.6 | 0.2 |
a Appropriate timing of antibiotics includes administering prophylactic antibiotics within 1 hour prior to surgical incision and discontinuing the antibiotics within 24 hours after surgery end time.
b The estimate for the Total row is based on State-level estimates whereas the estimates for the demographic categories are based on patient/episode-level data.
Key: SE: standard error.
Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Medicare Quality Improvement Organization Program.