Table 12_1_4-2

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_4.2
Adult surgery patients who had prophylactic antibiotics discontinued within 24 hours after surgery end time, by State, 2005 and 2007
	2007		2005
State	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total	83.7	0.0	68.5	0.1
Alabama	83.5	0.3	66.6	0.4
Alaska	82.1	0.9	72.9	3.0
Arizona	80.0	0.3	52.2	0.7
Arkansas	84.2	0.3	70.1	0.5
California	78.8	0.1	57.8	0.3
Colorado	83.7	0.3	71.6	0.9
Connecticut	86.4	0.4	89.6	1.0
Delaware	87.2	0.6	77.5	0.7
District of Columbia	83.5	0.8	54.8	2.1
Florida	82.4	0.2	63.9	0.2
Georgia	79.4	0.3	60.8	0.5
Hawaii	81.1	0.6	55.1	1.6
Idaho	78.8	0.6	62.7	1.0
Illinois	83.1	0.2	67.8	0.3
Indiana	82.4	0.2	61.1	0.4
Iowa	84.6	0.3	75.8	0.6
Kansas	82.9	0.3	60.5	0.6
Kentucky	80.7	0.3	75.2	0.5
Louisiana	75.0	0.3	58.0	0.8
Maine	93.2	0.3	80.5	0.6
Maryland	85.7	0.3	66.5	0.4
Massachusetts	89.6	0.2	79.4	0.4
Michigan	90.2	0.1	78.2	0.3
Minnesota	89.4	0.2	69.1	0.7
Mississippi	81.2	0.4	60.6	0.5
Missouri	85.5	0.2	68.9	0.4
Montana	87.9	0.5	81.4	0.6
Nebraska	87.2	0.4	75.3	0.7
Nevada	70.3	0.6	38.3	1.1
New Hampshire	91.7	0.4	74.4	0.9
New Jersey	90.4	0.2	78.9	0.3
New Mexico	82.7	0.5	72.1	0.7
New York	84.9	0.2	63.6	0.3
North Carolina	88.5	0.2	74.6	0.3
North Dakota	84.3	0.6	67.1	1.0
Ohio	85.6	0.2	55.6	0.5
Oklahoma	85.9	0.3	82.1	0.4
Oregon	82.8	0.4	72.3	0.7
Pennsylvania	85.5	0.1	68.9	0.3
Puerto Rico	54.0	0.6	55.3	0.8
Rhode Island	88.6	0.5	77.5	1.6
South Carolina	86.7	0.3	76.3	0.4
South Dakota	93.0	0.4	84.2	0.6
Tennessee	83.1	0.2	71.6	0.4
Texas	78.7	0.2	65.4	0.3
Utah	78.1	0.5	62.4	0.8
Vermont	93.0	0.6	75.8	0.9
Virginia	85.7	0.2	72.7	0.5
Washington	86.0	0.2	71.9	0.8
West Virginia	85.5	0.4	76.1	0.4
Wisconsin	87.8	0.2	66.2	0.4
Wyoming	85.6	0.7	77.6	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_4-2: 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_4-2.html