Table 12_1_3-2

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_3.2
Adult surgery patients who received prophylactic antibiotics within 1 hour prior to surgical incision, by State, 2005 and 2007
	2007		2005
State	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total	88.8	0.0	81.0	0.1
Alabama	89.6	0.2	84.3	0.3
Alaska	85.8	0.8	64.8	3.2
Arizona	85.6	0.3	73.6	0.6
Arkansas	88.3	0.3	77.8	0.4
California	86.4	0.1	72.8	0.3
Colorado	84.6	0.3	80.6	0.8
Connecticut	88.1	0.3	90.0	1.0
Delaware	91.4	0.5	87.6	0.6
District of Columbia	82.5	0.8	84.2	1.5
Florida	90.8	0.1	80.0	0.2
Georgia	85.6	0.2	74.6	0.4
Hawaii	89.4	0.5	63.1	1.5
Idaho	86.5	0.5	79.6	0.8
Illinois	91.1	0.1	84.0	0.2
Indiana	87.5	0.2	78.6	0.3
Iowa	89.5	0.3	85.2	0.5
Kansas	87.2	0.3	82.5	0.5
Kentucky	88.5	0.2	84.4	0.4
Louisiana	85.3	0.3	76.7	0.7
Maine	93.2	0.3	83.0	0.6
Maryland	90.4	0.2	84.5	0.3
Massachusetts	92.6	0.2	89.9	0.3
Michigan	92.1	0.1	84.3	0.2
Minnesota	87.4	0.2	80.1	0.6
Mississippi	85.1	0.3	75.3	0.4
Missouri	90.1	0.2	85.8	0.3
Montana	94.1	0.3	90.1	0.4
Nebraska	93.4	0.3	88.2	0.5
Nevada	80.9	0.5	70.0	1.0
New Hampshire	93.1	0.4	76.9	0.8
New Jersey	92.3	0.2	88.4	0.2
New Mexico	84.5	0.5	80.7	0.6
New York	89.6	0.1	73.9	0.3
North Carolina	92.2	0.1	85.5	0.3
North Dakota	87.4	0.6	86.6	0.7
Ohio	89.0	0.1	78.6	0.4
Oklahoma	90.7	0.2	85.3	0.4
Oregon	83.3	0.3	77.4	0.6
Pennsylvania	89.9	0.1	77.5	0.3
Puerto Rico	68.1	0.6	63.1	0.7
Rhode Island	87.8	0.5	93.9	0.9
South Carolina	92.6	0.2	87.7	0.3
South Dakota	92.1	0.4	86.2	0.6
Tennessee	87.4	0.2	81.4	0.4
Texas	86.3	0.1	74.2	0.3
Utah	86.3	0.4	74.3	0.7
Vermont	93.3	0.6	82.5	0.8
Virginia	90.0	0.2	83.4	0.4
Washington	88.9	0.2	81.0	0.7
West Virginia	90.8	0.3	82.5	0.3
Wisconsin	91.3	0.2	86.1	0.3
Wyoming	85.8	0.7	78.9	1.8

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_3-2: 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_3-2.html