Table 8_2_2-1

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 8_2_2.1
Hospital patients with pneumonia who had blood cultures collected before antibiotics were administered, United States, 2005 and 2007
		2007		2005
Population group		Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		90.8	0.0	82.9	0.0
Gender	Male	91.0	0.1	83.2	0.1
Gender	Female	90.6	0.1	82.5	0.1
Race	White	91.4	0.0	83.5	0.1
	Black	88.9	0.1	80.6	0.1
	Hispanic	87.9	0.2	79.2	0.2
	Native American	88.7	0.6	83.7	0.6
	Asian	90.3	0.3	83.9	0.4
Age	Under 65	89.3	0.1	80.7	0.1
	65–74	91.1	0.1	83.1	0.1
	75–84	91.7	0.1	84.1	0.1
	85 and over	92.0	0.1	84.7	0.1

Key: SE: standard error.

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

Current as of March 2010

Internet Citation: Table 8_2_2-1: 2009 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. March 2010. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr09/8_respiratorydiseases/T8_2_2-1.html