Table 4_2_1-2

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 4_2_1.2
Hospital patients with heart attack who received recommended hospital care,^a by State, 2005 and 2006
State	2006		2005
State	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
United States^b	95.2	0.0	93.5	1.9
Alabama	94.0	0.1	92.4	0.1
Alaska	95.4	0.5	94.0	0.5
Arizona	94.9	0.1	93.2	0.1
Arkansas	93.1	0.2	91.6	0.2
California	94.9	0.1	93.4	0.1
Colorado	97.4	0.1	96.8	0.1
Connecticut	96.3	0.1	94.4	0.2
Delaware	96.2	0.2	95.5	0.3
District of Columbia	93.7	0.3	91.3	0.5
Florida	94.1	0.1	91.8	0.1
Georgia	94.6	0.1	92.2	0.1
Hawaii	93.0	0.3	90.1	0.3
Idaho	97.8	0.2	96.3	0.3
Illinois	95.0	0.1	93.1	0.1
Indiana	95.8	0.1	93.6	0.1
Iowa	96.6	0.1	95.8	0.1
Kansas	93.9	0.2	94.2	0.2
Kentucky	94.6	0.1	92.5	0.1
Louisiana	93.8	0.1	91.5	0.2
Maine	96.2	0.2	94.8	0.2
Maryland	94.7	0.1	93.1	0.2
Massachusetts	97.1	0.1	96.2	0.1
Michigan	96.3	0.1	95.2	0.1
Minnesota	97.2	0.1	95.9	0.1
Mississippi	93.1	0.2	90.6	0.2
Missouri	96.0	0.1	93.7	0.1
Montana	96.2	0.3	95.4	0.3
Nebraska	96.7	0.2	95.3	0.2
Nevada	94.4	0.2	92.2	0.2
New Hampshire	97.7	0.2	96.1	0.2
New Jersey	96.3	0.1	95.8	0.1
New Mexico	93.1	0.3	90.3	0.3
New York	95.4	0.1	93.7	0.1
North Carolina	96.5	0.1	94.9	0.1
North Dakota	97.5	0.2	96.1	0.3
Ohio	96.3	0.1	95.1	0.1
Oklahoma	95.3	0.1	92.2	0.2
Oregon	95.9	0.1	94.8	0.2
Pennsylvania	95.7	0.1	93.8	0.1
Puerto Rico	79.7	0.3	77.8	0.3
Rhode Island	96.6	0.2	93.6	0.3
South Carolina	96.1	0.1	94.1	0.1
South Dakota	97.3	0.2	96.4	0.3
Tennessee	94.3	0.1	92.1	0.1
Texas	94.6	0.1	91.9	0.1
Utah	94.9	0.2	92.7	0.3
Vermont	96.6	0.4	93.8	0.4
Virginia	95.7	0.1	94.4	0.1
Washington	96.0	0.1	94.6	0.1
West Virginia	95.8	0.2	94.0	0.2
Wisconsin	96.3	0.1	95.3	0.1
Wyoming	92.7	0.6	93.3	0.6

^a Recommended hospital care for patients with heart attack includes administering aspirin and beta blocker within 24 hours of hospital arrival and at discharge, giving a prescription of angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor or angiotensin receptor blocker at discharge to patients with left ventricular systolic dysfunction, and giving smoking cessation counseling to smoking patients.

^b The estimate for the Total row is based on State-level estimates.

Key: SE: standard error.

Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Medicare Quality Improvement Organization Program.

Current as of September 2009

Internet Citation: Table 4_2_1-2: 2008 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. September 2009. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr08/4_heartdiseases/T4_2_1-2.html