Table 4_3_2-2

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_2.2
Hospital patients with heart failure who received an evaluation of left ventricular ejection fraction, by State, 2005 and 2007
	2007		2005
State	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total	94.2	0.0	89.6	0.0
Alabama	92.8	0.2	88.3	0.2
Alaska	91.4	1.0	94.3	0.9
Arizona	94.6	0.2	90.1	0.3
Arkansas	92.7	0.3	84.4	0.3
California	94.5	0.1	88.6	0.1
Colorado	93.6	0.3	89.5	0.4
Connecticut	97.2	0.2	94.7	0.2
Delaware	95.7	0.4	92.2	0.6
District of Columbia	88.5	0.6	86.2	0.7
Florida	95.3	0.1	91.0	0.1
Georgia	92.6	0.2	86.8	0.2
Hawaii	90.6	0.5	83.7	0.7
Idaho	93.5	0.6	87.7	0.8
Illinois	95.5	0.1	91.4	0.1
Indiana	94.0	0.2	87.6	0.2
Iowa	92.4	0.3	87.6	0.4
Kansas	86.6	0.4	83.5	0.4
Kentucky	91.5	0.2	84.7	0.3
Louisiana	92.1	0.2	85.3	0.2
Maine	96.1	0.3	93.4	0.4
Maryland	94.5	0.2	92.1	0.2
Massachusetts	96.0	0.1	92.8	0.2
Michigan	96.7	0.1	93.9	0.1
Minnesota	92.6	0.3	88.6	0.3
Mississippi	90.4	0.3	83.4	0.3
Missouri	93.3	0.2	88.9	0.2
Montana	89.9	0.7	81.3	0.8
Nebraska	93.9	0.4	90.7	0.4
Nevada	94.4	0.4	91.1	0.4
New Hampshire	97.5	0.3	94.1	0.4
New Jersey	97.0	0.1	94.6	0.1
New Mexico	86.4	0.6	78.1	0.7
New York	95.9	0.1	91.2	0.1
North Carolina	95.5	0.1	90.9	0.2
North Dakota	88.4	0.7	87.3	0.8
Ohio	96.5	0.1	92.8	0.1
Oklahoma	90.2	0.3	84.9	0.3
Oregon	93.2	0.3	88.8	0.4
Pennsylvania	95.3	0.1	92.2	0.1
Puerto Rico	80.3	0.5	78.4	0.5
Rhode Island	96.0	0.4	94.3	0.4
South Carolina	96.1	0.2	90.7	0.2
South Dakota	90.1	0.7	87.8	0.8
Tennessee	92.3	0.2	87.9	0.2
Texas	92.9	0.1	86.3	0.1
Utah	94.6	0.4	89.1	0.6
Vermont	96.2	0.6	89.7	0.9
Virginia	95.5	0.2	90.6	0.2
Washington	92.9	0.2	88.7	0.3
West Virginia	94.3	0.3	88.7	0.3
Wisconsin	94.8	0.2	91.1	0.2
Wyoming	81.1	1.4	66.2	1.6

Key: SE: standard error.

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

Current as of March 2010

Internet Citation: Table 4_3_2-2: 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_2-2.html