Table 3_1_4-1

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 3_1_4.1
Ratio of observed deaths to expected deaths among Medicare hemodialysis patients, by State, 2000 and 2007
	2007		2000
State	Rate	SE	Rate	SE
United States^a	0.94	---	0.99	--
Alabama	0.96	0.03	0.95	0.03
Alaska	0.94	0.15	1.48	0.22
Arizona	0.92	0.03	0.91	0.03
Arkansas	1.07	0.05	1.20	0.05
California	0.94	0.01	0.94	0.01
Colorado	0.75	0.04	0.88	0.05
Connecticut	0.84	0.04	0.89	0.04
Delaware	0.98	0.07	0.93	0.08
District of Columbia	0.69	0.06	0.89	0.06
Florida	1.06	0.02	1.06	0.02
Georgia	0.92	0.02	1.05	0.02
Hawaii	0.79	0.05	0.92	0.06
Idaho	0.96	0.09	1.22	0.10
Illinois	0.93	0.02	1.00	0.02
Indiana	0.91	0.03	0.97	0.03
Iowa	0.81	0.04	0.88	0.04
Kansas	0.88	0.05	1.03	0.05
Kentucky	0.92	0.04	1.07	0.04
Louisiana	1.04	0.03	1.07	0.03
Maine	0.67	0.06	0.85	0.07
Maryland	1.04	0.03	1.13	0.03
Massachusetts	0.88	0.03	1.01	0.03
Michigan	0.92	0.02	1.01	0.02
Minnesota	0.83	0.04	0.85	0.04
Mississippi	0.95	0.33	0.96	0.04
Missouri	0.95	0.03	1.00	0.03
Montana	0.82	0.09	0.79	0.08
Nebraska	0.91	0.06	1.11	0.07
Nevada	1.00	0.06	1.21	0.07
New Hampshire	0.94	0.08	1.00	0.09
New Jersey	0.90	0.02	1.06	0.02
New Mexico	0.94	0.06	0.65	0.04
New York	0.91	0.02	0.96	0.02
North Carolina	0.93	0.02	0.98	0.02
North Dakota	0.87	0.09	1.10	0.10
Ohio	0.88	0.02	1.03	0.02
Oklahoma	1.01	0.04	1.08	0.05
Oregon	0.95	0.05	0.96	0.05
Pennsylvania	0.92	0.02	1.00	0.02
Puerto Rico	1.28	0.05	1.09	0.05
Rhode Island	0.91	0.07	1.00	0.07
South Carolina	1.01	0.03	1.09	0.03
South Dakota	0.74	0.08	0.92	0.08
Tennessee	0.90	0.03	0.98	0.03
Texas	0.93	0.02	0.86	0.01
Utah	0.91	0.07	0.95	0.08
Vermont	0.86	0.13	0.81	0.12
Virginia	1.01	0.03	1.01	0.03
Washington	0.88	0.03	1.01	0.04
West Virginia	1.05	0.06	0.99	0.05
Wisconsin	0.84	0.03	1.06	0.04
Wyoming	0.94	0.16	0.72	0.13

^a Standard error is unavailable.

Key: SE: standard error.

Source: Data from the unit-specific report for dialysis patients, University of Michigan Kidney Epidemiology and Cost Center.

Current as of March 2010

Internet Citation: Table 3_1_4-1: 2009 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. March 2010. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr09/3_endstagerenaldisease/T3_1_4-1.html