Table 4_3_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 4_3_4.1
Admissions for congestive heart failure (excluding patients with cardiac procedures, obstetric conditions, and transfers from other institutions) per 100,000 population, age 18 and over, by State, 2000 and 2006
	2006		2000
State	Rate^a	SE	Rate^a	SE
Total	445.6	10.7	495.3	9.9
Arizona	269.1	2.4	312.1	3.0
Arkansas	521.7	4.7	DNC	DNC
California	346.2	1.2	392.4	1.3
Colorado	251.2	2.9	246.0	3.0
Connecticut	355.4	3.4	385.9	3.7
Florida	423.8	1.5	486.5	1.8
Georgia	552.0	3.1	526.5	3.1
Hawaii	291.2	5.2	339.0	6.2
Illinois	501.9	2.2	530.8	2.3
Indiana	488.5	3.2	DNC	DNC
Iowa	317.4	3.4	346.6	3.6
Kansas	384.1	4.4	418.6	4.7
Kentucky	597.3	4.2	622.5	4.7
Maine	316.5	5.0	417.8	6.2
Maryland	502.6	3.4	504.2	3.7
Massachusetts	424.8	2.9	427.5	2.8
Michigan	504.3	2.5	533.8	2.6
Minnesota	314.0	3.0	DNC	DNC
Missouri	469.1	3.1	490.2	3.4
Nebraska	296.9	4.6	DNC	DNC
Nevada	379.7	4.8	DNC	DNC
New Hampshire	295.2	5.3	DNC	DNC
New Jersey	464.0	2.5	573.0	2.9
New York	415.9	1.6	452.2	1.7
North Carolina	461.8	2.6	504.3	2.9
Ohio	505.3	2.3	DNC	DNC
Oklahoma	436.0	3.9	DNC	DNC
Oregon	244.8	2.8	263.6	3.1
Rhode Island	427.6	6.5	DNC	DNC
South Carolina	488.2	3.8	574.0	4.8
Tennessee	572.8	3.6	567.7	3.6
Texas	507.7	2.0	518.8	2.5
Utah	204.3	4.0	226.7	4.3
Vermont	215.7	6.4	DNC	DNC
Virginia	434.8	2.8	502.7	3.2
Washington	260.9	2.3	274.9	2.5
West Virginia	573.8	5.7	691.6	6.4
Wisconsin	308.9	2.6	368.0	2.9

^a Rates are adjusted by age and gender using the total U.S. population for 2000 as the standard population.

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_3_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/nhqrdr09/4_heartdiseases/T4_3_4-1.html