Table 8_2_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 8_2_2.3
Hospital patients with pneumonia whose initial emergency room blood culture was performed prior to the administration of the first hospital dose of antibiotics, by State, 2004 and 2008^a
	2008		2004
State	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total	90.3	0.2	81.9	0.3
Alabama	90.9	0.8	78.3	1.7
Alaska	92.7	2.2	88.1	2.7
Arizona	88.8	0.9	82.4	1.5
Arkansas	92.2	0.7	85.3	1.7
California	90.1	0.6	81.7	0.8
Colorado	89.6	2.3	81.2	2.0
Connecticut	90.4	1.6	84.4	1.7
Delaware	90.2	2.9	DSU	DSU
District of Columbia	81.0	5.0	DSU	DSU
Florida	90.0	1.0	81.4	1.0
Georgia	90.5	0.7	78.4	1.5
Hawaii	88.8	2.1	83.8	2.4
Idaho	93.1	0.9	88.5	2.2
Illinois	91.5	0.7	82.3	1.2
Indiana	91.2	0.6	82.4	1.3
Iowa	91.6	1.4	83.3	2.3
Kansas	90.3	2.2	82.3	2.6
Kentucky	89.0	1.0	77.6	1.5
Louisiana	87.0	1.5	79.8	2.0
Maine	90.6	1.2	81.2	5.0
Maryland	89.0	1.0	82.5	1.4
Massachusetts	90.9	0.7	81.0	1.4
Michigan	91.6	0.7	83.3	1.0
Minnesota	92.2	1.1	82.9	2.1
Mississippi	89.5	1.6	77.4	3.6
Missouri	91.3	1.0	80.2	1.6
Montana	89.2	3.0	89.7	4.7
Nebraska	88.0	3.7	86.6	3.1
Nevada	87.8	1.8	66.3	2.8
New Hampshire	94.5	0.9	84.4	4.2
New Jersey	93.7	0.6	88.2	1.2
New Mexico	86.4	1.8	78.6	3.3
New York	89.4	0.6	82.7	0.9
North Carolina	91.2	0.7	80.9	1.3
North Dakota	80.3	6.3	80.1	4.6
Ohio	91.7	0.6	84.2	1.0
Oklahoma	90.2	1.2	81.6	2.0
Oregon	91.6	0.9	84.5	1.8
Pennsylvania	91.7	0.5	83.2	1.0
Rhode Island	91.7	2.0	80.7	2.2
South Carolina	91.6	0.9	81.1	1.8
South Dakota	86.4	4.0	79.7	5.6
Tennessee	91.6	0.7	79.6	1.3
Texas	89.9	0.7	79.4	1.3
Utah	88.9	1.7	77.0	3.8
Vermont	96.1	0.7	79.2	5.0
Virginia	92.4	0.7	84.6	1.0
Washington	91.8	0.9	84.0	1.7
West Virginia	88.8	1.3	82.6	1.8
Wisconsin	92.7	1.0	86.1	1.5
Wyoming	83.1	4.8	87.8	2.8

^a Data were downloaded from http://www.medicare.gov/Download/DownloadDB.asp in late April each year. Estimates are calculated using hospital-level scores.

DSU - Data do not meet the criteria for statistical reliability, data quality, or confidentiality.

Key: SE: standard error.

Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Hospital Compare.

Current as of March 2010

Internet Citation: Table 8_2_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/nhqrdr09/8_respiratorydiseases/T8_2_2-3.html