Table 7_1_7-3

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 7_1_7.3
Suicide deaths per 100,000 population,^a by State, 1999 and 2006
	2006		1999
State	Rate	SE	Rate	SE
United States	10.9	0.1	10.5	0.1
Alabama	12.4	0.5	12.5	0.5
Alaska	20.0	1.8	16.8	1.9
Arizona	16.0	0.5	15.5	0.6
Arkansas	13.3	0.7	12.6	0.7
California	9.2	0.2	9.6	0.2
Colorado	15.2	0.6	13.7	0.6
Connecticut	8.0	0.5	7.9	0.5
Delaware	10.4	1.1	11.0	1.2
District of Columbia	5.1	0.9	5.1	0.9
Florida	12.6	0.3	12.2	0.3
Georgia	10.0	0.3	11.1	0.4
Hawaii	9.2	0.8	11.1	1.0
Idaho	15.6	1.1	14.8	1.1
Illinois	7.8	0.2	8.3	0.3
Indiana	13.0	0.5	10.4	0.4
Iowa	11.1	0.6	10.3	0.6
Kansas	13.8	0.7	11.2	0.7
Kentucky	14.6	0.6	11.6	0.5
Louisiana	11.6	0.5	11.9	0.5
Maine	11.0	0.9	13.4	1.0
Maryland	8.6	0.4	8.3	0.4
Massachusetts	6.7	0.3	6.7	0.3
Michigan	11.1	0.3	9.9	0.3
Minnesota	10.6	0.5	9.0	0.4
Mississippi	11.4	0.6	11.0	0.6
Missouri	13.5	0.5	12.5	0.5
Montana	19.7	1.5	17.7	1.4
Nebraska	11.2	0.8	10.5	0.8
Nevada	19.5	0.9	21.3	1.1
New Hampshire	11.0	0.9	11.2	1.0
New Jersey	6.5	0.3	6.6	0.3
New Mexico	18.0	1.0	18.1	1.0
New York	6.6	0.2	6.3	0.2
North Carolina	12.2	0.4	11.0	0.4
North Dakota	13.6	1.5	11.1	1.3
Ohio	11.2	0.3	9.7	0.3
Oklahoma	15.0	0.7	14.4	0.7
Oregon	15.2	0.6	13.9	0.6
Pennsylvania	10.8	0.3	10.3	0.3
Rhode Island	8.1	0.9	9.1	0.9
South Carolina	11.9	0.5	10.5	0.5
South Dakota	16.0	1.5	13.7	1.4
Tennessee	14.2	0.5	12.7	0.5
Texas	10.3	0.2	10.2	0.2
Utah	15.8	0.8	14.0	0.9
Vermont	12.0	1.4	10.2	1.3
Virginia	11.1	0.4	11.2	0.4
Washington	12.3	0.4	14.0	0.5
West Virginia	14.1	0.9	12.1	0.8
Wisconsin	11.9	0.5	11.0	0.5
Wyoming	21.7	2.0	20.3	2.1

^a Estimates are age adjusted to the 2000 standard population.

Key: SE: standard error.

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, National Vital Statistics System - Mortality.

Current as of March 2010

Internet Citation: Table 7_1_7-3: 2009 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. March 2010. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr09/7_mentalhealthsubstanceabuse/T7_1_7-3.html