Table 10_1_6-2

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_6.2
Adult surgery patients who received prophylactic antibiotics within 1 hour prior to surgical incision, by State, 2005 and 2006
State	2006		2005
State	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
United States^a	84.5	0.7	80.8	0.9
Alabama	84.1	0.3	84.3	0.3
Alaska	76.3	1.1	64.8	3.2
Arizona	78.7	0.3	73.6	0.6
Arkansas	81.9	0.3	77.8	0.4
California	80.0	0.1	72.8	0.3
Colorado	84.7	0.3	80.6	0.8
Connecticut	86.2	0.4	90.0	1.0
Delaware	88.9	0.6	87.6	0.6
District of Columbia	84.1	0.7	84.2	1.5
Florida	86.5	0.1	80.0	0.2
Georgia	79.9	0.3	74.6	0.4
Hawaii	85.0	0.6	63.2	1.5
Idaho	86.2	0.5	79.6	0.8
Illinois	85.5	0.2	84.0	0.2
Indiana	82.5	0.2	78.6	0.3
Iowa	89.0	0.3	85.2	0.5
Kansas	83.0	0.3	82.5	0.5
Kentucky	85.0	0.2	84.4	0.4
Louisiana	76.9	0.3	76.7	0.7
Maine	90.3	0.4	83.0	0.6
Maryland	88.0	0.2	84.5	0.3
Massachusetts	89.0	0.2	89.9	0.3
Michigan	88.7	0.1	84.3	0.2
Minnesota	84.3	0.3	80.1	0.6
Mississippi	83.4	0.3	75.3	0.4
Missouri	86.4	0.2	85.8	0.3
Montana	91.2	0.4	90.1	0.4
Nebraska	88.5	0.3	88.2	0.5
Nevada	72.6	0.6	70.0	1.0
New Hampshire	88.2	0.5	76.9	0.8
New Jersey	91.0	0.2	88.4	0.2
New Mexico	80.6	0.5	80.7	0.6
New York	83.8	0.2	73.9	0.3
North Carolina	89.0	0.2	85.5	0.3
North Dakota	89.3	0.5	86.6	0.7
Ohio	84.9	0.2	78.6	0.4
Oklahoma	87.1	0.2	85.3	0.4
Oregon	80.0	0.4	77.5	0.6
Pennsylvania	83.5	0.1	77.5	0.3
Puerto Rico	65.6	0.6	63.1	0.7
Rhode Island	90.5	0.6	93.9	0.9
South Carolina	90.3	0.2	87.7	0.3
South Dakota	92.6	0.4	86.2	0.6
Tennessee	83.5	0.2	81.4	0.4
Texas	79.4	0.1	74.2	0.3
Utah	81.7	0.4	74.3	0.7
Vermont	89.2	0.7	82.5	0.8
Virginia	86.9	0.2	83.4	0.4
Washington	84.3	0.3	81.0	0.7
West Virginia	86.7	0.3	82.5	0.4
Wisconsin	87.9	0.2	86.1	0.3
Wyoming	72.9	0.9	79.0	1.8

^a 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_6-2: 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_6-2.html