Table 12_1_2-3

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_2.3
Adult surgery patients who received appropriate timing of antibiotics, by State, 2005 and 2008^a
	2008		2005
State	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total	85.5	0.2	68.3	0.4
Alabama	84.3	1.4	71.1	2.3
Alaska	81.7	3.1	57.8	10.1
Arizona	84.1	1.3	66.9	5.5
Arkansas	86.1	1.3	70.6	3.0
California	84.2	0.6	60.0	1.7
Colorado	86.1	1.2	69.8	4.5
Connecticut	90.1	0.8	DSU	DSU
Delaware	88.3	1.9	73.1	4.2
District of Columbia	83.8	2.9	DSU	DSU
Florida	87.4	0.7	68.4	1.5
Georgia	83.4	1.1	64.1	2.8
Hawaii	82.6	3.3	58.2	3.2
Idaho	82.3	2.6	72.6	5.3
Illinois	84.0	1.0	66.0	2.1
Indiana	85.8	1.0	62.0	2.5
Iowa	84.0	1.7	71.4	3.1
Kansas	82.4	1.8	65.5	3.5
Kentucky	83.8	1.5	61.8	5.0
Louisiana	79.6	1.4	59.5	4.2
Maine	93.4	0.9	74.8	4.0
Maryland	88.0	1.1	69.2	2.4
Massachusetts	89.6	1.2	75.9	2.5
Michigan	90.2	0.7	77.4	1.5
Minnesota	87.7	1.3	65.8	4.8
Mississippi	78.3	2.4	60.4	2.9
Missouri	85.7	1.2	72.0	3.0
Montana	88.7	2.1	79.3	3.4
Nebraska	89.6	1.4	71.7	4.0
Nevada	80.1	2.2	50.2	6.4
New Hampshire	93.6	0.6	69.1	4.2
New Jersey	90.9	0.8	75.2	1.8
New Mexico	81.4	2.1	71.7	4.2
New York	88.4	0.5	69.1	1.8
North Carolina	90.0	0.7	73.2	2.0
North Dakota	91.7	1.6	79.9	3.4
Ohio	87.6	0.7	64.7	2.5
Oklahoma	83.1	1.7	79.0	3.1
Oregon	83.1	1.5	75.2	4.0
Pennsylvania	86.1	0.8	62.5	2.3
Rhode Island	90.8	1.6	85.0	4.4
South Carolina	87.7	1.6	73.6	2.3
South Dakota	90.4	2.1	80.1	3.9
Tennessee	83.0	1.3	67.7	3.1
Texas	81.5	0.8	61.7	2.3
Utah	85.5	1.5	60.4	4.0
Vermont	94.3	1.0	73.7	3.6
Virginia	87.3	1.0	63.9	3.7
Washington	88.1	0.9	74.3	4.1
West Virginia	80.1	2.4	66.7	3.2
Wisconsin	90.2	0.7	71.2	2.7
Wyoming	84.5	2.8	58.2	7.0

^a Appropriate timing of antibiotics includes receiving preventive antibiotic(s) 1 hour before incision and discontinuing the antibiotics within 24 hours after surgery end time. Data were downloaded from http://www.medicare.gov/Download/DownloadDB.asp in late April each year. Estimates are calculated using hospital-level scores.

DSU - Data do not meet the criteria for statistical reliability, data quality, or confidentiality.

Key: SE: standard error.

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

Current as of March 2010

Internet Citation: Table 12_1_2-3: 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_2-3.html