Table 8_2_4-1

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_4.1
Hospital patients with pneumonia who received the initial antibiotic dose consistent with current recommendations,^a United States, 2005 and 2006
Population group		2006		2005
Population group		Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total^b		85.3	0.5	80.4	0.5
Gender	Male	85.2	0.1	79.8	0.1
Gender	Female	85.3	0.1	79.9	0.1
Race	White	85.4	0.1	80.2	0.1
	Black	85.9	0.2	79.2	0.2
	Hispanic	82.7	0.2	77.1	0.2
	Native American	81.2	0.7	78.4	0.7
	Asian	83.9	0.4	78.3	0.4
Age	Under 65	85.4	0.1	80.4	0.1
	65–74	84.7	0.1	79.7	0.1
	75–84	85.3	0.1	79.8	0.1
	85 and over	85.3	0.1	79.2	0.1

^a Excluded patients with health care-associated pneumonia from the denominator.

^b 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_4-1: 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_4-1.html