Table 4_2_3-3

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_3.3
Hospital patients with heart attack who were prescribed aspirin at discharge, by State, 2004 and 2007^a��
State	2007		2004
State	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total	90.3	0.3	86.3	0.3
Alabama	91.1	1.5	83.4	2.8
Alaska	89.1	5.8	86.9	6.7
Arizona	89.3	2.9	89.4	2.0
Arkansas	84.5	3.4	74.8	4.0
California	91.2	0.9	87.9	1.0
Colorado	96.6	1.2	93.6	1.8
Connecticut	96.4	0.9	92.9	2.4
Delaware	97.8	1.0	94.8	2.1
District of Columbia	94.1	2.5	94.4	2.2
Florida	91.0	1.0	83.1	1.4
Georgia	86.0	1.9	81.4	2.2
Hawaii	89.6	2.8	88.1	2.5
Idaho	96.0	3.3	90.3	4.4
Illinois	90.0	1.2	86.0	1.8
Indiana	89.5	1.9	87.5	2.0
Iowa	88.9	2.4	85.5	3.4
Kansas	86.2	3.1	84.6	3.6
Kentucky	88.5	2.3	85.9	2.0
Louisiana	89.8	1.8	88.0	2.0
Maine	97.2	0.8	92.1	2.4
Maryland	95.1	0.8	90.4	1.2
Massachusetts	96.5	0.7	95.5	0.9
Michigan	93.0	1.2	87.2	1.8
Minnesota	89.7	2.2	89.1	2.2
Mississippi	82.2	3.3	81.5	3.3
Missouri	88.4	2.2	85.4	2.6
Montana	84.6	6.8	85.9	7.2
Nebraska	87.5	4.2	87.2	5.2
Nevada	90.8	2.9	87.1	5.4
New Hampshire	96.0	1.8	94.0	2.5
New Jersey	94.0	1.2	87.0	1.9
New Mexico	88.7	2.8	80.3	6.0
New York	94.2	0.8	89.9	0.9
North Carolina	92.2	1.2	86.4	1.5
North Dakota	86.6	6.8	85.7	7.2
Ohio	92.7	1.0	90.1	1.1
Oklahoma	83.4	2.9	79.3	3.4
Oregon	95.4	1.2	91.6	2.7
Pennsylvania	92.7	0.9	86.5	1.4
Rhode Island	96.9	1.2	98.2	0.7
South Carolina	89.1	2.5	86.4	2.1
South Dakota	90.0	4.5	76.9	8.7
Tennessee	84.9	2.3	76.7	3.1
Texas	88.2	1.3	84.7	1.3
Utah	83.4	6.3	73.6	6.9
Vermont	88.4	7.7	93.9	3.1
Virginia	94.3	1.0	88.9	1.7
Washington	93.2	1.3	92.1	1.6
West Virginia	87.3	2.2	84.1	2.4
Wisconsin	93.7	1.5	94.1	1.4
Wyoming	85.3	6.8	85.3	9.6

^a 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_3-3: 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_3-3.html