Table 10_1_5-3

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_5.3
Adult surgery patients who received appropriate timing of antibiotics, by State, 2005 and 2007^a
State	2007		2005
State	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total	79.7	0.2	68.3	0.4
Alabama	78.0	1.5	71.1	2.3
Alaska	78.8	2.8	57.8	10.1
Arizona	76.3	1.4	66.9	5.5
Arkansas	77.1	2.0	70.6	3.0
California	75.6	0.7	60.0	1.7
Colorado	79.1	1.5	69.8	4.5
Connecticut	84.0	1.5	*	*
Delaware	85.2	2.4	73.1	4.2
District of Columbia	79.7	2.3	*	*
Florida	81.3	0.9	68.4	1.5
Georgia	75.0	1.3	64.1	2.8
Hawaii	77.5	3.5	58.2	3.2
Idaho	78.4	3.2	72.6	5.3
Illinois	76.5	1.2	66.0	2.1
Indiana	79.3	1.3	62.0	2.5
Iowa	83.1	1.6	71.4	3.1
Kansas	77.7	1.7	65.5	3.5
Kentucky	75.6	1.7	61.8	5.0
Louisiana	73.2	1.5	59.5	4.2
Maine	91.0	0.9	74.8	4.0
Maryland	83.6	1.3	69.2	2.4
Massachusetts	86.4	1.0	75.9	2.5
Michigan	86.4	0.9	77.4	1.5
Minnesota	85.7	1.1	65.8	4.8
Mississippi	75.6	2.2	60.4	2.9
Missouri	80.4	1.4	72.0	3.0
Montana	86.3	2.4	79.3	3.4
Nebraska	87.1	1.5	71.7	4.0
Nevada	70.2	2.3	50.2	6.4
New Hampshire	90.1	1.0	69.1	4.2
New Jersey	87.1	1.0	75.2	1.8
New Mexico	75.3	2.6	71.7	4.2
New York	82.5	0.7	69.1	1.8
North Carolina	82.9	1.1	73.2	2.0
North Dakota	84.3	3.6	79.9	3.4
Ohio	82.2	0.8	64.7	2.5
Oklahoma	81.1	1.6	79.0	3.1
Oregon	77.0	1.8	75.2	4.0
Pennsylvania	79.2	1.0	62.5	2.3
Rhode Island	88.4	1.9	85.0	4.4
South Carolina	83.4	1.5	73.6	2.3
South Dakota	87.6	2.6	80.1	3.9
Tennessee	76.8	1.5	67.7	3.1
Texas	74.1	0.9	61.7	2.3
Utah	77.0	2.1	60.4	4.0
Vermont	88.7	2.6	73.7	3.6
Virginia	79.6	1.3	63.9	3.7
Washington	83.1	1.1	74.3	4.1
West Virginia	73.4	2.6	66.7	3.2
Wisconsin	87.2	1.0	71.2	2.7
Wyoming	83.8	2.0	58.2	7.0

^a Appropriate timing of antibiotics includes administering preventive antibiotics 1 hour before incision and discontinuing the antibiotics within 24 hours after surgery end time. Data were downloaded from http://www.medicare.gov/Download/DownloadDB.asp in late April each year. Estimates are calculated using hospital-level scores.

* - Data do not meet the criteria for statistical reliability, data quality, or confidentiality.

Key: SE: standard error.

Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Hospital Compare.

Current as of September 2009

Internet Citation: Table 10_1_5-3: 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_5-3.html