Table 8_2_3-2

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_3.2
Hospital patients with pneumonia who received the initial antibiotic dose within 6 hours of hospital arrival, by State, 2007
	2007
State	Percent	SE
Total	82.7	0.1
Alabama	82.3	0.4
Alaska	80.6	1.5
Arizona	79.4	0.4
Arkansas	84.4	0.4
California	81.5	0.2
Colorado	83.7	0.5
Connecticut	83.0	0.5
Delaware	76.8	1.1
District of Columbia	55.6	1.6
Florida	80.2	0.2
Georgia	79.6	0.3
Hawaii	84.1	0.8
Idaho	88.0	0.8
Illinois	83.1	0.2
Indiana	85.8	0.3
Iowa	89.3	0.4
Kansas	84.5	0.5
Kentucky	82.1	0.3
Louisiana	78.8	0.4
Maine	87.9	0.6
Maryland	80.3	0.4
Massachusetts	82.4	0.3
Michigan	85.4	0.2
Minnesota	85.2	0.4
Mississippi	80.3	0.5
Missouri	83.5	0.3
Montana	85.8	0.7
Nebraska	90.9	0.5
Nevada	78.1	0.9
New Hampshire	87.9	0.7
New Jersey	87.6	0.3
New Mexico	77.1	0.7
New York	79.7	0.2
North Carolina	82.7	0.3
North Dakota	86.8	0.8
Ohio	84.3	0.2
Oklahoma	84.8	0.3
Oregon	85.7	0.5
Pennsylvania	83.6	0.2
Puerto Rico	50.2	0.8
Rhode Island	85.7	0.8
South Carolina	83.4	0.4
South Dakota	88.9	0.7
Tennessee	83.7	0.3
Texas	81.7	0.2
Utah	85.0	0.6
Vermont	90.2	0.8
Virginia	83.2	0.3
Washington	82.7	0.4
West Virginia	78.9	0.5
Wisconsin	89.7	0.3
Wyoming	89.2	0.9

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_3-2: 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_3-2.html