Table 4_2_7-3

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_7.3
Smokers with heart attack who received smoking cessation counseling while hospitalized, by State, 2004 and 2007^a
State	2007		2004
State	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total	90.6	0.4	74.6	0.7
Alabama	92.0	2.9	79.7	4.1
Alaska	77.5	12.7	70.3	16.3
Arizona	90.5	3.1	75.8	4.8
Arkansas	86.5	5.1	81.7	7.0
California	88.9	1.4	66.3	2.6
Colorado	92.7	3.5	85.7	5.4
Connecticut	91.2	4.0	81.5	6.8
Delaware	97.4	1.4	*	*
District of Columbia	67.4	17.6	*	*
Florida	94.2	1.4	71.1	3.2
Georgia	88.6	2.9	69.5	5.1
Hawaii	92.2	2.4	75.8	8.9
Idaho	99.0	0.6	91.9	4.2
Illinois	91.3	1.9	73.9	3.4
Indiana	91.8	2.4	78.6	4.7
Iowa	92.8	4.0	78.1	6.6
Kansas	79.2	6.3	77.7	7.1
Kentucky	89.5	3.4	72.2	5.0
Louisiana	93.1	2.0	71.7	4.8
Maine	91.1	4.3	69.4	13.8
Maryland	96.6	1.0	81.3	4.2
Massachusetts	92.4	1.7	68.8	6.3
Michigan	89.8	2.5	82.1	3.4
Minnesota	72.1	6.4	75.0	7.6
Mississippi	95.6	1.6	71.3	7.9
Missouri	94.1	2.3	82.2	4.0
Montana	96.6	1.6	69.7	9.8
Nebraska	94.0	4.7	77.5	8.6
Nevada	95.0	2.6	60.6	9.2
New Hampshire	87.8	8.0	86.7	6.8
New Jersey	96.7	1.5	80.8	4.2
New Mexico	71.7	8.1	49.3	10.4
New York	89.8	1.8	68.0	3.9
North Carolina	96.1	1.2	73.8	4.8
North Dakota	61.0	12.8	65.7	12.7
Ohio	95.4	1.2	73.1	3.7
Oklahoma	88.3	3.8	72.8	6.3
Oregon	82.6	5.2	72.2	6.8
Pennsylvania	90.1	1.9	75.6	3.4
Rhode Island	90.8	6.2	73.3	10.8
South Carolina	95.7	2.4	79.0	5.8
South Dakota	62.1	13.8	90.1	8.2
Tennessee	91.0	2.9	80.6	3.8
Texas	92.4	1.5	73.5	3.0
Utah	99.1	0.4	74.4	8.0
Vermont	88.0	11.0	*	*
Virginia	89.7	2.6	81.3	4.3
Washington	90.0	2.9	71.2	5.5
West Virginia	90.6	3.5	74.6	6.5
Wisconsin	89.0	3.2	80.8	4.9
Wyoming	79.1	13.2	*	*

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

* - Data do not meet the criteria for statistical reliability, data quality, or confidentiality.

Key: SE: standard error.

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

Current as of September 2009

Internet Citation: Table 4_2_7-3: 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_7-3.html