Table 8_2_2-1

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_2.1
Hospital patients with pneumonia who had blood cultures collected before antibiotics were administered, United States, 2005 and 2006
Population group		2006		2005
Population group		Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total^a		90.0	0.5	82.5	0.6
Gender	Male	90.1	0.1	83.2	0.1
Gender	Female	89.9	0.1	82.5	0.1
Race	White	90.6	0.1	83.5	0.1
	Black	88.1	0.1	80.6	0.1
	Hispanic	86.7	0.2	79.2	0.2
	Native American	88.8	0.6	83.7	0.6
	Asian	90.3	0.3	83.9	0.4
Age	Under 65	88.4	0.1	80.7	0.1
	65–74	90.1	0.1	83.1	0.1
	75–84	91.0	0.1	84.1	0.1
	85 and over	91.2	0.1	84.7	0.1

^a The estimate for the Total row is based on State-level estimates whereas the estimates for the demographic categories are based on patient/episode-level data.

Key: SE: standard error.

Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Medicare Quality Improvement Organization Program.

Current as of September 2009

Internet Citation: Table 8_2_2-1: 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_2-1.html