Table 12_1_2-2

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_2.2
Adult surgery patients who received appropriate timing of antibiotics,^a by State, 2005 and 2007
	2007		2005
State	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total	86.4	0.0	74.9	0.0
Alabama	86.6	0.2	75.7	0.3
Alaska	84.0	0.6	68.7	2.2
Arizona	82.9	0.2	63.2	0.5
Arkansas	86.3	0.2	74.1	0.3
California	82.7	0.1	65.5	0.2
Colorado	84.1	0.2	76.2	0.6
Connecticut	87.3	0.2	89.8	0.7
Delaware	89.3	0.4	82.6	0.5
District of Columbia	83.0	0.6	69.7	1.3
Florida	86.7	0.1	72.2	0.2
Georgia	82.6	0.2	67.9	0.3
Hawaii	85.4	0.4	59.2	1.1
Idaho	82.7	0.4	71.3	0.7
Illinois	87.2	0.1	76.1	0.2
Indiana	85.0	0.2	70.0	0.3
Iowa	87.1	0.2	80.6	0.4
Kansas	85.1	0.2	71.7	0.4
Kentucky	84.8	0.2	80.0	0.3
Louisiana	80.3	0.2	67.6	0.5
Maine	93.2	0.2	81.8	0.4
Maryland	88.1	0.2	75.7	0.2
Massachusetts	91.1	0.1	84.7	0.2
Michigan	91.2	0.1	81.3	0.2
Minnesota	88.4	0.2	74.8	0.5
Mississippi	83.2	0.2	68.2	0.3
Missouri	87.8	0.1	77.6	0.3
Montana	91.1	0.3	85.8	0.3
Nebraska	90.3	0.2	81.9	0.4
Nevada	75.8	0.4	54.6	0.8
New Hampshire	92.4	0.3	75.7	0.6
New Jersey	91.4	0.1	83.8	0.2
New Mexico	83.6	0.4	76.5	0.5
New York	87.3	0.1	68.9	0.2
North Carolina	90.4	0.1	80.2	0.2
North Dakota	85.9	0.4	77.0	0.6
Ohio	87.3	0.1	67.5	0.3
Oklahoma	88.4	0.2	83.8	0.3
Oregon	83.1	0.2	74.9	0.5
Pennsylvania	87.8	0.1	73.3	0.2
Puerto Rico	61.1	0.4	59.7	0.5
Rhode Island	88.2	0.4	86.1	0.9
South Carolina	89.7	0.2	82.1	0.2
South Dakota	92.5	0.3	85.2	0.4
Tennessee	85.3	0.2	76.7	0.3
Texas	82.6	0.1	69.9	0.2
Utah	82.3	0.3	68.5	0.5
Vermont	93.2	0.4	79.2	0.6
Virginia	87.9	0.1	78.1	0.3
Washington	87.5	0.2	76.5	0.5
West Virginia	88.2	0.2	79.4	0.3
Wisconsin	89.6	0.1	76.3	0.3
Wyoming	85.7	0.5	78.3	1.3

^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_2-2: 2009 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. March 2010. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://archive.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr09/12_patientsafety/T12_1_2-2.html