Table 8_2_4-3

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_4.3
Hospital patients with pneumonia given the most appropriate initial antibiotics, by State, 2005 and 2008^a
	2008		2005
State	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total	86.7	0.2	76.5	0.2
Alabama	84.5	1.0	74.4	1.2
Alaska	80.8	3.3	72.1	3.6
Arizona	86.5	1.5	81.7	1.8
Arkansas	85.9	1.2	76.0	1.2
California	86.8	0.7	75.5	0.7
Colorado	88.4	0.9	79.3	1.4
Connecticut	88.1	3.1	71.0	3.9
Delaware	93.0	1.1	82.8	4.6
District of Columbia	89.1	2.5	79.0	3.7
Florida	87.7	0.9	75.8	0.9
Georgia	86.1	1.0	74.1	1.2
Hawaii	87.5	1.8	73.3	2.3
Idaho	89.6	1.3	78.5	3.4
Illinois	86.9	0.8	75.4	0.9
Indiana	86.0	1.2	78.5	1.1
Iowa	88.0	1.3	78.7	1.7
Kansas	80.9	2.0	69.3	2.3
Kentucky	84.5	1.2	74.7	1.2
Louisiana	80.7	2.0	71.9	1.6
Maine	92.0	0.9	78.6	2.4
Maryland	87.8	2.1	80.9	1.2
Massachusetts	90.8	0.7	76.5	1.4
Michigan	91.2	0.6	82.1	0.9
Minnesota	86.2	1.4	76.9	1.5
Mississippi	80.8	2.0	73.4	2.2
Missouri	86.0	1.0	75.9	1.3
Montana	85.4	2.8	73.6	3.7
Nebraska	88.2	2.0	82.9	2.2
Nevada	87.8	1.5	75.0	4.3
New Hampshire	91.9	1.3	81.3	1.7
New Jersey	91.0	0.7	77.8	1.3
New Mexico	80.6	2.7	76.9	2.0
New York	88.7	0.7	77.8	1.0
North Carolina	86.5	0.9	75.5	1.1
North Dakota	86.2	2.1	78.0	3.5
Ohio	89.2	0.5	78.0	0.8
Oklahoma	86.1	1.5	74.8	2.0
Oregon	87.2	1.8	78.9	1.4
Pennsylvania	88.3	0.6	76.6	0.9
Rhode Island	92.0	2.0	83.5	2.0
South Carolina	87.6	0.9	75.1	1.6
South Dakota	87.7	1.9	75.0	4.2
Tennessee	86.0	1.0	76.1	1.0
Texas	86.4	0.6	73.6	0.9
Utah	90.4	1.3	80.3	1.5
Vermont	93.7	1.3	83.2	2.4
Virginia	88.9	0.8	77.1	1.2
Washington	87.3	1.3	75.4	1.9
West Virginia	84.9	1.4	75.9	1.6
Wisconsin	89.5	0.8	83.1	0.8
Wyoming	87.5	2.1	80.7	2.3

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

Key: SE: standard error.

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

Current as of March 2010

Internet Citation: Table 8_2_4-3: 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_4-3.html