Table 10_1_5-2

2008 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 10_1_5.2
Adult surgery patients who received appropriate timing of antibiotics,^a by State, 2005 and 2006
State	2006		2005
State	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
United States^b	80.9	0.0	75.2	0.19
Alabama	79.4	0.2	75.7	0.3
Alaska	77.8	0.7	68.7	2.2
Arizona	75.1	0.2	63.2	0.5
Arkansas	79.4	0.2	74.1	0.3
California	74.4	0.1	65.5	0.2
Colorado	79.7	0.3	76.2	0.6
Connecticut	83.5	0.3	89.8	0.7
Delaware	85.4	0.5	82.6	0.5
District of Columbia	77.4	0.6	69.7	1.3
Florida	80.7	0.1	72.2	0.2
Georgia	75.4	0.2	67.9	0.3
Hawaii	78.2	0.5	59.2	1.1
Idaho	80.4	0.4	71.3	0.7
Illinois	80.3	0.1	76.1	0.2
Indiana	78.7	0.2	70.0	0.3
Iowa	84.2	0.2	80.6	0.4
Kansas	77.6	0.3	71.7	0.4
Kentucky	80.3	0.2	80.0	0.3
Louisiana	70.9	0.2	67.6	0.5
Maine	89.8	0.3	81.8	0.4
Maryland	82.6	0.2	75.7	0.2
Massachusetts	84.8	0.2	84.7	0.2
Michigan	86.7	0.1	81.3	0.2
Minnesota	83.2	0.2	74.8	0.5
Mississippi	78.0	0.3	68.2	0.3
Missouri	82.4	0.2	77.6	0.3
Montana	88.7	0.3	85.8	0.3
Nebraska	86.5	0.2	81.9	0.4
Nevada	66.1	0.4	54.6	0.8
New Hampshire	87.3	0.3	75.7	0.6
New Jersey	88.6	0.1	83.8	0.2
New Mexico	79.3	0.4	76.5	0.5
New York	80.2	0.1	68.9	0.2
North Carolina	85.2	0.1	80.2	0.2
North Dakota	81.9	0.5	77.0	0.6
Ohio	80.0	0.1	67.5	0.3
Oklahoma	83.7	0.2	83.8	0.3
Oregon	77.2	0.3	74.9	0.5
Pennsylvania	79.5	0.1	73.3	0.2
Puerto Rico	65.1	0.4	59.7	0.5
Rhode Island	84.5	0.5	86.1	0.9
South Carolina	85.5	0.2	82.1	0.2
South Dakota	91.6	0.3	85.2	0.4
Tennessee	80.0	0.2	76.7	0.3
Texas	74.2	0.1	69.9	0.2
Utah	76.4	0.3	68.5	0.5
Vermont	88.6	0.5	79.2	0.6
Virginia	83.7	0.2	78.1	0.3
Washington	81.1	0.2	76.5	0.5
West Virginia	84.1	0.2	79.4	0.3
Wisconsin	84.1	0.2	76.3	0.3
Wyoming	76.1	0.6	78.3	1.3

^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.

Current as of September 2009

Internet Citation: Table 10_1_5-2: 2008 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. September 2009. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr08/10_patientsafety/T10_1_5-2.html