Table 4_3_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_3_1.2
Hospital patients with heart failure who received recommended hospital care (evaluation of left ventricular ejection fraction and ACE inhibitor or ARB prescription at discharge, if indicated, for left ventricular systolic dysfunction), by State, 2005 and 2007
	2007		2005
State	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total	93.1	0.0	87.7	0.0
Alabama	92.0	0.2	86.9	0.2
Alaska	93.2	0.7	92.7	0.8
Arizona	93.1	0.2	87.7	0.3
Arkansas	91.3	0.2	82.3	0.3
California	93.6	0.1	87.2	0.1
Colorado	92.9	0.3	88.3	0.3
Connecticut	95.6	0.2	91.3	0.2
Delaware	93.3	0.5	87.2	0.6
District of Columbia	88.1	0.5	85.0	0.6
Florida	93.5	0.1	88.0	0.1
Georgia	91.2	0.2	85.0	0.2
Hawaii	89.8	0.5	82.8	0.6
Idaho	93.4	0.6	86.6	0.7
Illinois	94.0	0.1	89.0	0.1
Indiana	92.5	0.2	85.8	0.2
Iowa	92.1	0.3	87.8	0.3
Kansas	86.5	0.4	83.1	0.4
Kentucky	90.0	0.2	83.0	0.2
Louisiana	91.0	0.2	84.0	0.2
Maine	95.1	0.3	91.0	0.4
Maryland	93.1	0.2	89.7	0.2
Massachusetts	94.5	0.1	90.7	0.2
Michigan	95.4	0.1	92.1	0.1
Minnesota	92.6	0.2	87.2	0.3
Mississippi	89.3	0.2	83.0	0.3
Missouri	92.6	0.2	87.6	0.2
Montana	90.2	0.6	82.7	0.7
Nebraska	92.8	0.3	88.7	0.4
Nevada	92.8	0.3	88.6	0.4
New Hampshire	96.4	0.3	92.4	0.4
New Jersey	95.7	0.1	92.9	0.1
New Mexico	86.5	0.5	78.4	0.6
New York	94.5	0.1	89.0	0.1
North Carolina	94.2	0.1	88.9	0.2
North Dakota	89.3	0.6	87.2	0.7
Ohio	95.1	0.1	90.4	0.1
Oklahoma	90.4	0.2	85.1	0.3
Oregon	92.7	0.3	87.3	0.4
Pennsylvania	94.0	0.1	89.2	0.1
Puerto Rico	81.6	0.4	79.0	0.4
Rhode Island	94.7	0.4	92.2	0.4
South Carolina	95.1	0.2	89.3	0.2
South Dakota	90.2	0.6	87.1	0.7
Tennessee	91.1	0.2	85.8	0.2
Texas	91.9	0.1	85.1	0.1
Utah	93.4	0.4	88.0	0.5
Vermont	95.6	0.6	87.1	0.8
Virginia	94.6	0.1	87.7	0.2
Washington	92.3	0.2	87.6	0.3
West Virginia	92.2	0.3	86.9	0.3
Wisconsin	93.9	0.2	89.2	0.2
Wyoming	82.5	1.2	68.8	1.4

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_3_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_3_1-2.html