Table 4_3_5-3

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_3_5.3
Deaths per 1,000 hospital admissions with congestive heart failure as principal diagnosis (excluding obstetric admissions and transfers to another hospital), age 18 and over, by State, 2000 and 2006
	2006		2000
State	Rate^a	SE	Rate^a	SE
Total	32.7	0.2	55.3	0.2
Arizona	20.5	1.5	44.1	1.9
Arkansas	50.9	1.7	DNC	DNC
California	32.3	0.6	51.9	0.7
Colorado	23.3	1.9	43.6	2.4
Connecticut	29.4	1.4	50.2	1.8
Florida	25.6	0.6	44.2	0.7
Georgia	32.4	1.1	58.4	1.3
Hawaii	37.3	3.1	57.5	3.6
Illinois	30.9	0.8	51.1	1.0
Iowa	42.2	2.0	65.1	2.1
Kansas	38.3	2.0	67.8	2.3
Kentucky	34.7	1.3	58.7	1.6
Maine	38.8	2.9	DNC	DNC
Maryland	19.6	1.0	44.9	1.4
Massachusetts	32.4	1.1	52.7	1.4
Michigan	23.8	0.8	49.8	1.0
Minnesota	33.4	1.5	DNC	DNC
Missouri	35.7	1.2	55.6	1.4
Nebraska	36.2	2.5	DNC	DNC
Nevada	34.2	2.2	DNC	DNC
New Hampshire	41.0	3.3	DNC	DNC
New Jersey	32.5	0.9	57.6	1.0
New York	40.5	0.7	66.5	0.8
North Carolina	34.4	1.1	61.2	1.2
Oklahoma	41.2	1.7	DNC	DNC
Oregon	41.4	2.0	58.3	2.5
Rhode Island	29.6	2.5	DNC	DNC
South Carolina	38.3	1.5	64.0	1.8
Tennessee	38.7	1.1	66.5	1.3
Texas	32.5	0.7	57.0	0.8
Utah	39.1	3.3	51.1	3.7
Vermont	56.9	5.3	DNC	DNC
Virginia	36.8	1.1	DNC	DNC
Washington	32.6	1.6	52.2	1.8
West Virginia	35.9	1.9	58.1	2.0
Wisconsin	31.8	1.4	56.8	1.7

^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_3_5-3: 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_3_5-3.html