Table 4_2_2-3

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 4_2_2.3
Deaths per 1,000 admissions with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) as principal diagnosis (excluding transfers to another hospital), age 18 and over, by State, 2000 and 2006
	2006		2000
State	Rate^a	SE	Rate^a	SE
Total	73.0	0.3	105.8	0.3
Arizona	64.1	2.6	98.3	2.8
Arkansas	96.2	3.5	DNC	DNC
California	77.3	1.1	103.2	1.1
Colorado	60.8	3.5	82.2	3.3
Connecticut	68.3	3.1	94.3	2.9
Florida	64.6	1.2	93.2	1.1
Georgia	81.5	2.3	118.2	2.4
Hawaii	89.1	4.8	113.4	5.4
Illinois	68.9	1.7	103.0	1.7
Iowa	83.6	3.8	113.3	3.3
Kansas	82.9	4.0	120.9	3.9
Kentucky	73.1	2.4	107.6	2.5
Maine	70.4	4.3	DNC	DNC
Maryland	53.7	2.3	93.1	2.3
Massachusetts	64.4	2.1	92.4	2.1
Michigan	58.8	1.6	100.5	1.7
Minnesota	68.4	3.0	DNC	DNC
Missouri	78.2	2.2	115.0	2.1
Nebraska	90.9	5.5	DNC	DNC
Nevada	85.5	4.0	DNC	DNC
New Hampshire	74.5	5.3	DNC	DNC
New Jersey	79.4	2.0	103.2	1.7
New York	76.6	1.3	108.7	1.3
North Carolina	76.3	2.0	110.4	2.0
Oklahoma	89.1	3.1	DNC	DNC
Oregon	76.2	3.4	111.4	3.8
Rhode Island	70.2	5.2	DNC	DNC
South Carolina	75.6	2.9	116.2	2.9
Tennessee	80.1	2.2	120.0	2.2
Texas	74.0	1.3	114.6	1.3
Utah	85.3	6.1	90.8	5.8
Vermont	86.4	8.9	DNC	DNC
Virginia	74.9	2.2	DNC	DNC
Washington	77.7	2.9	106.3	2.8
West Virginia	81.6	3.4	109.9	3.3
Wisconsin	71.4	2.6	116.1	2.7

^a Rates are adjusted by age, gender, age-gender interactions, and All Patient Refined-Diagnosis Related Group (APR-DRG) risk of mortality score.

DNC - Data were not collected.

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 4_2_2-3: 2009 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. March 2010. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr09/4_heartdiseases/T4_2_2-3.html