Table 8_2_2-3

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_2.3
Hospital patients with pneumonia whose initial emergency room blood culture was performed prior to the administration of the first hospital dose of antibiotics, by State, 2004 and 2007^a
State	2007		2004
State	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total	90.2	0.1	81.9	0.3
Alabama	90.1	0.9	78.3	1.7
Alaska	93.1	1.2	88.1	2.7
Arizona	87.4	0.9	82.4	1.5
Arkansas	91.3	0.7	85.3	1.7
California	88.3	0.6	81.7	0.8
Colorado	91.8	0.8	81.2	2.0
Connecticut	89.9	1.2	84.4	1.7
Delaware	88.4	1.7	*	*
District of Columbia	83.4	4.0	*	*
Florida	88.3	0.6	81.4	1.0
Georgia	88.4	1.0	78.4	1.5
Hawaii	86.2	3.8	83.8	2.4
Idaho	93.2	1.8	88.5	2.2
Illinois	90.3	0.6	82.3	1.2
Indiana	89.9	0.9	82.4	1.3
Iowa	94.2	0.7	83.3	2.3
Kansas	92.9	1.3	82.3	2.6
Kentucky	87.4	0.9	77.6	1.5
Louisiana	87.6	1.0	79.8	2.0
Maine	90.3	1.3	81.2	5.0
Maryland	86.8	1.0	82.5	1.4
Massachusetts	88.9	0.8	81.0	1.4
Michigan	90.7	0.8	83.3	1.0
Minnesota	93.7	0.8	82.9	2.1
Mississippi	91.1	1.1	77.4	3.6
Missouri	91.4	0.7	80.2	1.6
Montana	93.5	1.6	89.7	4.7
Nebraska	97.4	0.7	86.6	3.1
Nevada	82.3	2.5	66.3	2.8
New Hampshire	93.0	0.8	84.4	4.2
New Jersey	93.2	0.6	88.2	1.2
New Mexico	89.2	1.5	78.6	3.3
New York	88.0	0.6	82.7	0.9
North Carolina	91.3	0.5	80.9	1.3
North Dakota	96.7	1.1	80.1	4.6
Ohio	91.2	0.5	84.2	1.0
Oklahoma	92.0	0.8	81.6	2.0
Oregon	90.2	1.1	84.5	1.8
Pennsylvania	91.1	0.5	83.2	1.0
Rhode Island	90.1	1.6	80.7	2.2
South Carolina	90.1	0.8	81.1	1.8
South Dakota	96.7	0.9	79.7	5.6
Tennessee	90.2	0.6	79.6	1.3
Texas	90.0	0.5	79.4	1.3
Utah	87.8	2.1	77.0	3.8
Vermont	93.2	1.6	79.2	5.0
Virginia	90.5	0.6	84.6	1.0
Washington	90.6	1.1	84.0	1.7
West Virginia	90.8	0.8	82.6	1.8
Wisconsin	93.6	0.6	86.1	1.5
Wyoming	92.1	2.1	87.8	2.8

^a Data were downloaded from http://www.medicare.gov/Download/DownloadDB.asp in late April each year. Estimates are calculated using hospital-level scores. The 2004 measure title is pneumonia patients having a blood culture performed prior to first antibiotic received in hospital.

Key: SE: standard error.

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

Current as of September 2009

Internet Citation: Table 8_2_2-3: 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_2-3.html