Table 12_1_5-3

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_5.3
Postoperative sepsis per 1,000 elective-surgery discharges with an operating room procedure (excluding patients admitted for infection; patients with cancer or immunocompromised states; obstetric conditions; stays under 4 days; and admissions specifically for sepsis),^a age 18 and over, by State, 2000 and 2006
	2006		2000
State	Rate^b	SE	Rate^b	SE
Total	15.1	0.1	9.6	0.1
Arizona	15.5	0.8	8.0	0.8
Arkansas	11.0	0.9	DNC	DNC
California	17.1	0.4	11.1	0.3
Colorado	16.6	0.9	9.2	1.0
Connecticut	13.4	1.1	9.8	1.0
Florida	17.7	0.5	12.0	0.4
Georgia	14.5	0.6	11.1	0.6
Hawaii	20.3	2.3	9.3	2.1
Illinois	12.8	0.5	9.5	0.5
Iowa	9.9	1.0	6.7	0.9
Kansas	11.6	1.0	7.6	0.9
Kentucky	16.0	0.7	14.1	0.7
Maine	10.8	1.7	DNC	DNC
Maryland	24.8	0.9	14.8	0.9
Massachusetts	10.7	0.8	6.7	0.7
Minnesota	9.0	0.7	DNC	DNC
Missouri	15.9	0.7	12.3	0.6
Nebraska	9.1	1.1	DNC	DNC
Nevada	20.5	1.4	DNC	DNC
New Hampshire	10.8	1.7	DNC	DNC
New Jersey	15.8	0.7	12.8	0.6
New York	15.2	0.5	9.5	0.4
North Carolina	12.4	0.7	6.9	0.7
Oklahoma	13.8	0.9	DNC	DNC
Oregon	9.6	1.0	6.1	0.9
Rhode Island	8.8	2.2	DNC	DNC
South Carolina	11.4	0.8	8.1	0.9
Tennessee	13.7	0.6	10.5	0.6
Utah	16.3	1.3	9.4	1.5
Vermont	DSU	DSU	DNC	DNC
Virginia	14.4	0.7	DNC	DNC
Washington	11.9	0.8	6.6	0.7
West Virginia	15.2	1.2	8.2	1.2
Wisconsin	10.8	0.8	6.6	0.8

^a For California, "admission type" (emergent, urgent, elective) that is used to include only elective admissions was unavailable on all discharges; instead, an indicator for scheduled admissions was used to identify elective admissions. For other States that included information on "admission type" but had some records missing that information, an alternate algorithm based on "admission source" and nonemergency/nonurgent diagnosis-related groups was used to include only elective admissions.

^b Rates are adjusted by age, gender, age-gender interactions, comorbidities, and diagnosis-related group clusters.

DNC - Data were not collected.

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

Key: SE: standard error.

Source: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Center for Delivery, Organization, and Markets, Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) databases and AHRQ Quality Indicators, version 3.1. State estimates are from the State Inpatient Databases (SID), and not all States participate in HCUP. Estimates for the total U.S. are from the Nationwide Inpatient Sample, which is drawn from the SID and weighted to give national estimates.

Current as of March 2010

Internet Citation: Table 12_1_5-3: 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_5-3.html