Table 8_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 8_2_1.3
Hospital patients with pneumonia who received recommended hospital care, by State, 2006 and 2007^a
State	2007		2006
State	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total	84.0	0.1	77.6	0.1
Alabama	81.0	0.9	74.0	1.0
Alaska	82.7	2.8	74.3	2.7
Arizona	82.0	0.9	73.9	1.1
Arkansas	86.1	0.7	78.5	1.1
California	79.9	0.6	71.7	0.6
Colorado	84.9	1.0	80.1	1.1
Connecticut	87.1	1.1	80.8	1.4
Delaware	85.2	1.7	78.5	2.3
District of Columbia	67.4	4.3	54.4	4.9
Florida	83.8	0.5	74.9	0.6
Georgia	80.7	0.7	72.4	0.8
Hawaii	78.1	2.6	70.7	2.4
Idaho	88.2	1.5	81.2	1.7
Illinois	82.4	0.6	75.2	0.8
Indiana	86.6	0.6	81.1	0.7
Iowa	88.7	0.7	86.2	0.7
Kansas	77.1	1.2	75.5	1.3
Kentucky	84.8	0.7	79.9	0.7
Louisiana	78.5	1.0	71.8	1.2
Maine	90.6	0.9	83.4	1.2
Maryland	83.6	1.0	76.9	1.1
Massachusetts	86.4	0.7	80.4	0.8
Michigan	86.6	0.6	80.8	0.8
Minnesota	86.2	0.8	80.3	0.9
Mississippi	78.1	1.3	73.2	1.4
Missouri	84.7	0.7	78.3	0.8
Montana	86.9	1.3	84.1	1.4
Nebraska	87.7	1.0	84.4	1.1
Nevada	76.1	2.0	68.2	2.2
New Hampshire	92.9	0.6	85.6	1.2
New Jersey	91.2	0.4	86.3	0.5
New Mexico	77.8	1.5	71.2	1.6
New York	85.3	0.4	78.6	0.6
North Carolina	84.9	0.7	79.4	0.8
North Dakota	87.0	1.9	82.2	2.0
Ohio	87.8	0.4	82.0	0.5
Oklahoma	83.3	1.0	78.5	1.0
Oregon	83.0	1.1	76.1	1.3
Pennsylvania	86.1	0.5	79.1	0.6
Rhode Island	83.0	3.0	74.6	3.4
South Carolina	86.9	0.7	80.9	0.8
South Dakota	86.1	1.5	82.7	1.8
Tennessee	85.3	0.6	79.5	0.7
Texas	84.3	0.4	76.4	0.6
Utah	84.7	1.4	79.1	1.4
Vermont	92.2	1.2	84.7	1.4
Virginia	86.4	0.7	77.3	0.8
Washington	82.1	1.0	75.2	1.1
West Virginia	82.9	1.1	78.2	1.0
Wisconsin	89.0	0.6	85.0	0.6
Wyoming	83.9	1.9	80.8	1.9

^a Recommended hospital care for pneumonia includes collecting blood cultures before administering the first dose of antibiotics, administering the first dose of antibiotics within 4 hours of patient's arrival at the hospital, administering the recommended empirical antibiotic regimen consistent with current guidelines (excluding health care-associated patients), screening for influenza vaccine status and vaccinating prior to discharge for patients age 50 and over discharged during the winter, and screening for pneumococcal vaccine status and vaccinating prior to discharge for patients age 65 and over.

Key: SE: standard error.

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

Current as of September 2009

Internet Citation: Table 8_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/nhqrdr08/8_respiratorydiseases/T8_2_1-3.html