Table 4_4_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_4_2.3
Deaths per 1,000 admissions with coronary artery bypass graft (excluding obstetric admissions and transfers to another hospital), age 40 and over, by State, 2000 and 2006
	2006		2000
State	Rate^a	SE	Rate^a	SE
Total	24.4	0.3	41.9	0.3
Arizona	24.5	1.9	44.3	2.3
Arkansas	34.8	2.8	DNC	DNC
California	22.9	1.1	39.6	1.0
Colorado	18.2	3.1	34.7	3.0
Connecticut	25.7	2.6	33.9	2.6
Florida	25.0	1.0	38.7	1.0
Georgia	31.6	2.0	51.4	2.2
Hawaii	37.9	4.8	55.3	5.8
Illinois	23.4	1.5	38.5	1.4
Iowa	28.0	3.8	41.7	3.2
Kansas	29.6	3.2	49.0	3.3
Kentucky	24.9	2.2	40.2	2.1
Maine	37.4	4.1	DNC	DNC
Maryland	20.0	2.0	39.5	2.5
Massachusetts	20.2	2.2	32.7	2.1
Michigan	21.8	1.5	36.5	1.6
Minnesota	24.5	2.6	DNC	DNC
Missouri	28.2	1.8	50.4	1.8
Nebraska	28.6	3.8	DNC	DNC
Nevada	36.2	3.0	DNC	DNC
New Hampshire	37.6	5.3	DNC	DNC
New Jersey	26.7	1.9	38.2	1.8
New York	24.0	1.3	43.7	1.3
North Carolina	27.8	2.0	44.2	2.1
Oklahoma	32.5	2.6	DNC	DNC
Oregon	28.7	2.9	35.9	3.1
Rhode Island	29.9	6.3	DNC	DNC
South Carolina	21.0	2.4	47.4	2.8
Tennessee	28.0	1.7	49.7	1.8
Texas	29.0	1.0	51.0	1.2
Utah	22.3	4.0	34.0	4.0
Vermont	35.4	8.6	DNC	DNC
Virginia	23.7	2.1	DNC	DNC
Washington	33.2	2.5	40.0	2.3
West Virginia	33.2	3.4	42.2	3.6
Wisconsin	22.1	1.8	40.3	2.1

^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_4_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_4_2-3.html