Table 4_2_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 4_2_5.3
Hospital patients with heart attack who were prescribed beta blocker at discharge, by State, 2004 and 2007^a
State	2007		2004
State	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total	90.8	0.3	84.0	0.4
Alabama	85.8	2.2	74.3	3.2
Alaska	88.6	5.9	83.5	4.0
Arizona	91.3	2.6	83.2	2.8
Arkansas	84.7	3.2	72.6	4.1
California	91.5	0.8	83.3	1.1
Colorado	91.9	2.1	89.8	3.0
Connecticut	98.0	0.4	94.5	1.1
Delaware	96.0	1.6	95.8	2.9
District of Columbia	92.6	2.7	91.1	2.5
Florida	92.3	1.0	85.1	1.2
Georgia	87.5	2.0	79.5	2.1
Hawaii	91.7	2.6	79.1	4.5
Idaho	91.6	4.3	76.8	9.7
Illinois	88.9	1.4	85.1	1.5
Indiana	93.0	1.5	86.5	2.1
Iowa	91.8	2.0	84.2	3.2
Kansas	81.1	3.4	82.6	3.6
Kentucky	88.0	2.3	83.7	2.0
Louisiana	90.6	1.8	82.2	2.5
Maine	97.4	0.8	87.2	3.8
Maryland	93.9	0.9	89.7	1.5
Massachusetts	97.2	0.6	95.3	0.8
Michigan	93.0	1.6	88.9	1.7
Minnesota	94.1	1.7	92.5	1.3
Mississippi	83.9	3.3	74.7	4.2
Missouri	87.7	2.3	82.0	2.7
Montana	86.9	5.8	95.1	1.8
Nebraska	87.8	4.2	75.3	6.5
Nevada	90.8	2.8	76.2	6.4
New Hampshire	98.4	0.7	93.6	2.5
New Jersey	96.1	0.8	87.8	1.7
New Mexico	82.1	4.4	69.3	6.6
New York	95.0	0.8	90.2	0.9
North Carolina	92.1	1.4	85.1	1.8
North Dakota	97.9	1.1	85.5	4.8
Ohio	93.1	1.1	89.1	1.2
Oklahoma	81.4	3.3	72.8	3.8
Oregon	93.8	1.5	83.7	3.6
Pennsylvania	94.8	0.7	86.3	1.1
Rhode Island	96.2	1.5	96.6	1.1
South Carolina	91.5	2.4	84.1	2.9
South Dakota	90.7	3.4	81.5	7.2
Tennessee	86.1	2.2	73.7	2.9
Texas	88.8	1.2	81.1	1.5
Utah	84.1	5.9	73.0	6.0
Vermont	96.4	2.2	90.6	5.4
Virginia	94.1	1.5	87.3	1.5
Washington	93.7	1.3	91.1	1.6
West Virginia	90.0	2.2	85.9	2.4
Wisconsin	95.1	1.0	89.1	1.7
Wyoming	91.0	4.1	72.1	10.9

^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_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/nhqrdr08/4_heartdiseases/T4_2_5-3.html