Table 4_2_1-3

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 4_2_1.3
Hospital patients with heart attack who received recommended hospital care, by State, 2004 and 2007^a
State	2007		2004
State	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total	89.9	0.1	83.3	0.2
Alabama	86.7	0.9	79.3	1.2
Alaska	88.3	2.8	85.7	2.9
Arizona	89.8	1.1	84.7	1.1
Arkansas	86.5	1.3	75.4	1.5
California	91.0	0.4	83.0	0.6
Colorado	93.5	0.9	90.3	1.2
Connecticut	94.4	0.8	89.5	1.5
Delaware	95.5	0.9	88.7	3.9
District of Columbia	85.1	4.0	87.7	2.5
Florida	91.2	0.4	82.0	0.7
Georgia	86.0	0.9	78.9	1.0
Hawaii	91.0	1.1	80.1	2.2
Idaho	93.2	1.6	85.4	2.8
Illinois	89.3	0.6	83.3	0.8
Indiana	89.8	0.8	83.7	1.0
Iowa	90.4	1.0	83.1	1.5
Kansas	81.3	1.5	82.7	1.6
Kentucky	86.7	1.0	80.4	1.2
Louisiana	90.9	0.7	82.1	1.1
Maine	95.2	0.8	88.7	1.7
Maryland	93.3	0.5	86.6	1.0
Massachusetts	94.2	0.5	90.9	1.0
Michigan	91.6	0.7	85.7	0.9
Minnesota	88.4	1.1	87.1	1.1
Mississippi	85.0	1.2	78.0	1.6
Missouri	88.1	0.9	82.4	1.1
Montana	86.7	2.5	85.8	2.7
Nebraska	89.2	1.6	80.5	2.4
Nevada	91.4	1.3	80.8	2.3
New Hampshire	95.0	1.2	92.7	1.2
New Jersey	94.5	0.5	87.5	0.9
New Mexico	82.8	2.0	75.0	2.6
New York	92.3	0.5	87.1	0.6
North Carolina	91.0	0.7	83.6	0.9
North Dakota	87.2	2.7	86.7	2.4
Ohio	92.1	0.5	86.2	0.7
Oklahoma	82.1	1.4	77.1	1.5
Oregon	91.8	1.0	85.8	1.4
Pennsylvania	91.3	0.5	83.2	0.7
Rhode Island	92.6	1.5	90.6	2.2
South Carolina	91.0	0.9	83.7	1.2
South Dakota	88.6	2.1	81.1	3.0
Tennessee	85.3	1.0	77.2	1.2
Texas	89.2	0.5	80.8	0.7
Utah	87.5	2.2	75.9	2.5
Vermont	93.9	2.1	94.4	1.5
Virginia	92.4	0.6	86.2	0.9
Washington	92.6	0.7	86.8	1.2
West Virginia	88.4	1.1	82.8	1.4
Wisconsin	92.3	0.7	88.4	0.9
Wyoming	87.0	2.9	87.8	3.3

^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. Data were downloaded from http://www.medicare.gov/Download/DownloadDB.asp in late April each year. Estimates are calculated using hospital-level scores.

Key: SE: standard error.

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

Current as of September 2009

Internet Citation: Table 4_2_1-3: 2008 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. September 2009. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr08/4_heartdiseases/T4_2_1-3.html