Table 8_2_2-2

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_2.2
Hospital patients with pneumonia who had blood cultures collected before antibiotics were administered, by State, 2005 and 2007
	2007		2005
State	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total	90.8	0.0	82.9	0.0
Alabama	89.7	0.3	79.6	0.3
Alaska	92.4	1.0	87.4	1.2
Arizona	88.1	0.4	78.5	0.4
Arkansas	91.3	0.4	84.4	0.4
California	90.5	0.1	82.0	0.2
Colorado	91.6	0.4	83.2	0.5
Connecticut	90.6	0.4	84.1	0.4
Delaware	87.7	0.9	78.7	1.0
District of Columbia	80.5	1.4	70.8	1.2
Florida	89.8	0.2	82.3	0.2
Georgia	90.0	0.3	80.7	0.3
Hawaii	87.8	0.8	84.0	0.7
Idaho	94.0	0.6	85.9	0.8
Illinois	91.9	0.2	83.9	0.2
Indiana	92.1	0.3	83.5	0.3
Iowa	94.4	0.3	85.3	0.4
Kansas	93.5	0.4	84.8	0.5
Kentucky	90.9	0.3	82.3	0.3
Louisiana	89.1	0.3	80.4	0.4
Maine	89.6	0.6	83.0	0.6
Maryland	86.9	0.4	82.8	0.3
Massachusetts	89.5	0.3	81.5	0.3
Michigan	91.3	0.2	83.4	0.2
Minnesota	92.3	0.3	82.8	0.4
Mississippi	92.1	0.4	83.4	0.4
Missouri	92.2	0.2	84.1	0.3
Montana	91.2	0.8	87.0	0.7
Nebraska	94.8	0.4	86.5	0.5
Nevada	86.1	0.7	69.4	0.8
New Hampshire	92.7	0.6	82.7	0.7
New Jersey	93.6	0.2	90.1	0.2
New Mexico	87.1	0.6	81.9	0.6
New York	88.4	0.2	81.5	0.2
North Carolina	91.5	0.2	84.0	0.3
North Dakota	93.6	0.7	83.9	0.9
Ohio	91.5	0.2	83.8	0.2
Oklahoma	92.3	0.3	85.0	0.3
Oregon	91.9	0.4	82.3	0.5
Pennsylvania	91.6	0.2	84.2	0.2
Puerto Rico	68.3	0.9	65.4	0.7
Rhode Island	91.2	0.6	82.9	0.7
South Carolina	91.2	0.3	84.6	0.4
South Dakota	93.3	0.8	82.9	0.8
Tennessee	92.1	0.2	81.2	0.3
Texas	90.7	0.1	82.4	0.2
Utah	89.2	0.6	82.1	0.6
Vermont	93.8	0.7	86.0	1.0
Virginia	91.9	0.3	84.2	0.3
Washington	90.5	0.3	84.4	0.4
West Virginia	90.2	0.4	80.9	0.4
Wisconsin	94.3	0.2	86.7	0.3
Wyoming	90.4	0.9	82.9	1.1

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_2-2: 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_2-2.html