Table 8_2_3-3

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_3.3
Hospital patients with pneumonia who received the initial antibiotic dose within 6 hours after arrival, by State, 2007^a
State	Percent	SE
Total	93.3	0.2
Alabama	92.3	0.9
Alaska	94.3	2.0
Arizona	91.3	1.2
Arkansas	94.7	0.7
California	92.2	0.6
Colorado	95.2	0.7
Connecticut	90.3	3.2
Delaware	89.2	1.9
District of Columbia	81.1	5.3
Florida	91.6	0.6
Georgia	90.6	1.0
Hawaii	96.5	1.2
Idaho	97.4	1.0
Illinois	93.6	0.6
Indiana	95.1	0.7
Iowa	95.7	1.2
Kansas	92.4	1.4
Kentucky	94.5	0.6
Louisiana	92.5	1.1
Maine	96.5	0.7
Maryland	92.7	0.9
Massachusetts	94.4	0.8
Michigan	94.8	0.7
Minnesota	94.4	1.2
Mississippi	92.2	1.2
Missouri	92.1	1.1
Montana	92.7	2.4
Nebraska	97.2	0.9
Nevada	90.8	1.7
New Hampshire	97.3	0.7
New Jersey	94.8	0.7
New Mexico	91.2	1.4
New York	92.4	0.6
North Carolina	92.5	1.2
North Dakota	96.2	1.5
Ohio	95.1	0.4
Oklahoma	94.9	0.6
Oregon	95.6	0.7
Pennsylvania	94.1	0.4
Rhode Island	96.8	0.9
South Carolina	93.9	0.7
South Dakota	94.5	3.7
Tennessee	94.5	0.6
Texas	93.0	0.6
Utah	95.2	1.5
Vermont	98.3	0.8
Virginia	93.8	0.7
Washington	94.8	0.9
West Virginia	91.7	1.2
Wisconsin	97.5	0.4
Wyoming	96.2	2.2

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

Key: SE: standard error.

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

Current as of September 2009

Internet Citation: Table 8_2_3-3: 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_3-3.html