Table 8_2_4-2

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_4.2
Hospital patients with pneumonia who received the initial antibiotic consistent with current recommendations,^a by State, 2005 and 2006
State	2006		2005
State	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
United States^b	85.3	0.5	80.4	0.5
Alabama	83.0	0.4	78.9	0.4
Alaska	82.8	1.5	73.6	1.6
Arizona	87.3	0.4	85.2	0.4
Arkansas	83.6	0.5	78.3	0.4
California	84.0	0.2	78.5	0.2
Colorado	86.9	0.5	82.7	0.5
Connecticut	88.9	0.5	78.1	0.6
Delaware	87.6	1.0	85.7	0.9
District of Columbia	84.5	1.2	80.5	1.2
Florida	85.9	0.2	79.8	0.2
Georgia	84.1	0.3	78.3	0.3
Hawaii	80.1	0.9	76.8	0.9
Idaho	88.4	0.8	83.2	0.9
Illinois	85.2	0.3	78.1	0.2
Indiana	85.3	0.3	81.3	0.3
Iowa	88.3	0.5	83.0	0.5
Kansas	81.8	0.6	75.7	0.5
Kentucky	83.7	0.3	78.1	0.3
Louisiana	79.9	0.5	74.7	0.4
Maine	89.2	0.6	84.1	0.7
Maryland	87.1	0.4	82.5	0.4
Massachusetts	88.3	0.3	81.1	0.3
Michigan	89.6	0.2	85.4	0.2
Minnesota	85.2	0.4	80.9	0.4
Mississippi	80.0	0.5	76.4	0.5
Missouri	83.1	0.3	78.6	0.3
Montana	85.5	0.8	83.4	0.8
Nebraska	90.8	0.5	85.7	0.6
Nevada	85.7	0.7	82.4	0.7
New Hampshire	91.3	0.6	85.9	0.7
New Jersey	88.8	0.3	82.5	0.3
New Mexico	83.9	0.7	79.4	0.6
New York	87.4	0.2	79.8	0.2
North Carolina	86.3	0.3	80.1	0.3
North Dakota	83.3	1.1	80.2	1.0
Ohio	86.6	0.2	81.0	0.2
Oklahoma	84.8	0.4	81.0	0.4
Oregon	86.0	0.5	83.1	0.5
Pennsylvania	85.3	0.2	79.9	0.2
Puerto Rico	65.9	0.7	64.4	0.7
Rhode Island	89.6	0.8	86.4	0.8
South Carolina	85.3	0.4	79.9	0.4
South Dakota	85.4	0.9	80.7	0.8
Tennessee	84.1	0.3	79.2	0.3
Texas	82.3	0.2	77.2	0.2
Utah	86.6	0.6	83.5	0.6
Vermont	89.8	1.0	84.0	1.0
Virginia	86.0	0.3	81.5	0.3
Washington	84.3	0.4	77.6	0.5
West Virginia	85.1	0.5	79.1	0.5
Wisconsin	88.8	0.4	85.1	0.3
Wyoming	83.5	1.1	80.0	1.0

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

^b The estimate is based on State-level estimates.

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_4-2: 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_4-2.html