Table 4_2_7-2

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_7.2
Smokers with heart attack who received smoking cessation counseling while hospitalized, by State, 2005 and 2006
State	2006		2005
State	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
United States^a	95.9	0.4	90.9	0.7
Alabama	96.9	0.3	92.8	0.5
Alaska	90.3	2.0	87.9	2.2
Arizona	95.4	0.4	89.7	0.7
Arkansas	96.4	0.4	93.3	0.6
California	94.3	0.3	87.2	0.4
Colorado	98.0	0.3	93.8	0.6
Connecticut	95.7	0.6	91.8	0.8
Delaware	98.3	0.6	93.7	1.1
District of Columbia	93.4	1.0	80.1	2.4
Florida	97.5	0.2	92.5	0.3
Georgia	96.5	0.3	92.3	0.4
Hawaii	85.9	1.5	82.3	1.7
Idaho	98.6	0.5	93.1	1.2
Illinois	95.5	0.3	88.6	0.4
Indiana	96.7	0.3	92.5	0.4
Iowa	98.4	0.3	95.5	0.5
Kansas	96.1	0.5	93.4	0.7
Kentucky	97.8	0.2	95.2	0.3
Louisiana	95.3	0.4	90.0	0.6
Maine	97.5	0.6	92.1	1.1
Maryland	96.3	0.4	94.3	0.5
Massachusetts	95.3	0.4	91.5	0.5
Michigan	97.8	0.2	94.4	0.3
Minnesota	96.2	0.4	94.4	0.5
Mississippi	97.0	0.4	92.2	0.6
Missouri	98.2	0.2	92.6	0.4
Montana	97.0	0.8	88.6	1.4
Nebraska	96.8	0.6	94.7	0.8
Nevada	94.0	0.7	89.1	0.9
New Hampshire	97.9	0.6	93.5	1.0
New Jersey	98.1	0.3	95.9	0.4
New Mexico	89.7	1.1	77.6	1.6
New York	93.7	0.3	86.6	0.4
North Carolina	98.0	0.2	95.5	0.3
North Dakota	97.0	0.8	95.7	0.9
Ohio	97.8	0.2	94.5	0.3
Oklahoma	97.4	0.3	92.0	0.6
Oregon	91.9	0.7	88.7	0.8
Pennsylvania	96.9	0.2	92.6	0.3
Puerto Rico	91.8	1.0	90.5	1.2
Rhode Island	94.8	1.0	67.3	2.2
South Carolina	98.4	0.2	94.6	0.4
South Dakota	96.6	0.8	95.1	1.0
Tennessee	97.8	0.2	94.3	0.3
Texas	96.0	0.2	90.2	0.3
Utah	97.3	0.6	87.7	1.4
Vermont	96.9	1.1	84.0	2.5
Virginia	97.7	0.3	95.9	0.3
Washington	91.5	0.6	83.9	0.8
West Virginia	98.8	0.3	96.7	0.4
Wisconsin	97.2	0.3	94.8	0.5
Wyoming	91.3	1.9	88.2	2.2

^a The estimate 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_7-2: 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_7-2.html