Table 8_2_4-2

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_4.2
Hospital patients with pneumonia who received the initial antibiotic consistent with current recommendations,^a by State, 2005 and 2007
	2007		2005
State	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total	88.7	0.1	79.9	0.1
Alabama	86.9	0.4	78.9	0.4
Alaska	85.3	1.5	73.6	1.6
Arizona	89.3	0.4	85.2	0.4
Arkansas	86.6	0.4	78.3	0.4
California	89.4	0.2	78.5	0.2
Colorado	89.8	0.5	82.7	0.5
Connecticut	91.7	0.5	78.1	0.6
Delaware	91.8	0.9	85.7	0.9
District of Columbia	88.4	1.3	80.5	1.2
Florida	88.9	0.2	79.8	0.2
Georgia	87.4	0.3	78.3	0.3
Hawaii	86.1	0.9	76.8	0.9
Idaho	90.4	0.8	83.2	0.9
Illinois	88.4	0.3	78.1	0.2
Indiana	88.1	0.3	81.3	0.3
Iowa	90.1	0.4	83.0	0.5
Kansas	87.0	0.5	75.7	0.5
Kentucky	86.8	0.3	78.1	0.3
Louisiana	82.9	0.5	74.6	0.4
Maine	92.4	0.6	84.1	0.7
Maryland	89.7	0.4	82.5	0.4
Massachusetts	91.3	0.3	81.1	0.3
Michigan	92.3	0.2	85.4	0.2
Minnesota	89.2	0.4	80.9	0.4
Mississippi	84.1	0.5	76.4	0.5
Missouri	87.5	0.3	78.6	0.3
Montana	88.5	0.8	83.4	0.8
Nebraska	91.7	0.5	85.7	0.6
Nevada	88.6	0.8	82.4	0.7
New Hampshire	92.4	0.7	85.9	0.7
New Jersey	91.8	0.3	82.5	0.3
New Mexico	84.3	0.7	79.4	0.6
New York	89.9	0.2	79.8	0.2
North Carolina	89.5	0.3	80.1	0.3
North Dakota	86.3	1.0	80.2	1.0
Ohio	89.6	0.2	81.0	0.2
Oklahoma	88.5	0.4	81.0	0.4
Oregon	89.9	0.4	83.1	0.5
Pennsylvania	89.5	0.2	79.9	0.2
Puerto Rico	71.9	0.8	64.4	0.7
Rhode Island	93.7	0.7	86.4	0.7
South Carolina	88.8	0.4	79.9	0.4
South Dakota	90.0	0.8	80.7	0.8
Tennessee	86.9	0.3	79.2	0.3
Texas	87.0	0.2	77.2	0.2
Utah	90.0	0.6	83.5	0.6
Vermont	93.2	0.9	84.0	1.0
Virginia	89.8	0.3	81.5	0.3
Washington	88.4	0.4	77.6	0.5
West Virginia	87.4	0.5	79.1	0.5
Wisconsin	90.9	0.3	85.1	0.3
Wyoming	89.2	1.0	80.0	1.0

^a Excluded patients with health care-associated pneumonia from the denominator.

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_4-2: 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_4-2.html