Table 4_2_1-2

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 4_2_1.2
Hospital patients with heart attack and left ventricular systolic dysfunction who were prescribed ACE inhibitor or ARB at discharge, by State, 2005 and 2007
	2007		2005
State	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total	91.3	0.1	83.4	0.1
Alabama	91.5	0.7	82.9	0.8
Alaska	97.5	1.5	85.7	3.4
Arizona	91.4	0.7	83.3	0.9
Arkansas	90.5	0.9	80.5	1.1
California	91.8	0.3	84.0	0.4
Colorado	94.1	0.9	91.4	1.0
Connecticut	91.5	0.9	81.9	1.1
Delaware	93.6	1.5	88.8	1.7
District of Columbia	93.2	1.6	82.4	2.5
Florida	89.9	0.4	81.2	0.4
Georgia	89.4	0.7	81.0	0.8
Hawaii	90.9	1.6	79.5	1.9
Idaho	92.5	1.7	84.1	2.4
Illinois	91.3	0.5	82.5	0.6
Indiana	91.2	0.6	83.2	0.7
Iowa	95.5	0.7	89.5	0.9
Kansas	89.6	1.2	87.2	1.1
Kentucky	89.7	0.7	79.2	0.8
Louisiana	86.8	0.9	81.3	0.9
Maine	88.7	1.5	79.2	1.8
Maryland	90.6	0.8	80.7	1.0
Massachusetts	90.0	0.7	83.1	0.7
Michigan	92.2	0.5	87.0	0.5
Minnesota	94.7	0.6	88.4	0.8
Mississippi	89.7	0.9	82.7	1.1
Missouri	93.3	0.5	85.9	0.6
Montana	93.9	1.6	86.2	2.1
Nebraska	90.8	1.3	84.8	1.5
Nevada	90.3	1.4	84.1	1.7
New Hampshire	94.9	1.2	89.2	1.4
New Jersey	93.2	0.5	89.0	0.6
New Mexico	89.4	1.4	75.4	1.9
New York	91.2	0.4	83.6	0.4
North Carolina	92.0	0.5	85.3	0.6
North Dakota	95.3	1.3	88.5	1.9
Ohio	92.9	0.4	83.8	0.5
Oklahoma	91.6	0.8	86.3	1.0
Oregon	94.0	0.8	84.0	1.2
Pennsylvania	90.2	0.4	80.3	0.5
Puerto Rico	80.1	1.4	75.0	1.4
Rhode Island	92.3	1.6	86.7	1.7
South Carolina	94.6	0.6	86.5	0.8
South Dakota	94.7	1.4	87.4	2.1
Tennessee	89.4	0.6	81.5	0.7
Texas	91.7	0.4	82.0	0.5
Utah	88.4	1.8	82.9	2.2
Vermont	92.1	2.3	71.7	2.9
Virginia	93.6	0.6	82.8	0.8
Washington	92.0	0.7	86.0	0.9
West Virginia	92.8	0.8	86.3	1.0
Wisconsin	91.5	0.8	84.6	0.8
Wyoming	96.9	1.8	79.8	4.4

Key: ACE: angiotensin-converting enzyme; ARB: angiotensin receptor blocker; SE: standard error.

Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Medicare Quality Improvement Organization Program.

Current as of March 2010

Internet Citation: Table 4_2_1-2: 2009 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. March 2010. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr09/4_heartdiseases/T4_2_1-2.html