Table 12_1_2-1

2009 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 12_1_2.1
Adult surgery patients who received appropriate timing of antibiotics,^a United States, 2005 and 2007
		2007		2005
Population group		Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		86.4	0.0	74.9	0.0
Gender	Male	85.6	0.0	71.4	0.1
Gender	Female	86.8	0.0	76.7	0.1
Race	White	86.8	0.0	75.2	0.0
	Black	85.8	0.1	75.2	0.1
	Hispanic	80.9	0.1	69.8	0.2
	Native American	85.2	0.4	77.4	0.7
	Asian	84.6	0.2	70.8	0.5
Age	Under 65	87.4	0.0	77.5	0.1
	65–74	85.9	0.0	72.8	0.1
	75–84	85.0	0.1	71.7	0.1
	85 and over	82.2	0.1	68.6	0.2

^a Appropriate timing of antibiotics includes receiving prophylactic antibiotics within 1 hour prior to surgical incision and discontinuing the antibiotics within 24 hours after surgery end time.

Key: SE: standard error.

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

Current as of March 2010

Internet Citation: Table 12_1_2-1: 2009 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. March 2010. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr09/12_patientsafety/T12_1_2-1.html