Table 8_2_6-2

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_6.2
Hospital patients age 65 and over with pneumonia who received pneumococcal screening or vaccination, by State, 2005 and 2007
	2007		2005
State	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total	82.5	0.1	61.2	0.1
Alabama	80.2	0.4	63.2	0.5
Alaska	76.7	1.8	51.4	2.3
Arizona	79.1	0.5	58.8	0.6
Arkansas	84.5	0.4	59.7	0.6
California	78.3	0.2	44.9	0.2
Colorado	80.2	0.6	65.6	0.7
Connecticut	85.7	0.4	66.5	0.6
Delaware	83.7	1.0	60.2	1.4
District of Columbia	48.1	1.9	26.8	1.7
Florida	84.9	0.2	56.8	0.3
Georgia	77.0	0.4	53.5	0.4
Hawaii	69.0	1.0	50.6	1.1
Idaho	81.9	0.9	68.1	1.1
Illinois	79.3	0.3	54.1	0.3
Indiana	85.8	0.3	70.7	0.4
Iowa	89.8	0.4	79.4	0.5
Kansas	73.7	0.6	62.9	0.7
Kentucky	84.4	0.3	67.1	0.4
Louisiana	78.8	0.4	61.3	0.5
Maine	88.5	0.6	66.5	0.8
Maryland	78.2	0.5	59.9	0.5
Massachusetts	83.7	0.3	58.7	0.4
Michigan	83.3	0.3	62.7	0.4
Minnesota	84.1	0.4	67.5	0.5
Mississippi	76.6	0.5	56.8	0.7
Missouri	85.8	0.3	65.1	0.4
Montana	87.0	0.7	72.6	1.0
Nebraska	86.4	0.5	75.0	0.7
Nevada	73.2	0.9	52.4	1.0
New Hampshire	92.0	0.6	69.0	1.0
New Jersey	90.6	0.2	80.3	0.3
New Mexico	70.9	0.8	45.8	0.9
New York	81.5	0.2	59.6	0.3
North Carolina	85.3	0.3	68.2	0.4
North Dakota	84.7	0.8	75.2	1.1
Ohio	84.7	0.2	63.5	0.3
Oklahoma	85.9	0.3	72.7	0.5
Oregon	80.7	0.5	56.3	0.7
Pennsylvania	84.7	0.2	65.2	0.3
Puerto Rico	30.5	0.9	24.2	0.7
Rhode Island	80.6	0.9	58.9	1.1
South Carolina	88.2	0.4	68.5	0.5
South Dakota	87.0	0.7	77.3	0.9
Tennessee	84.0	0.3	66.9	0.4
Texas	82.9	0.2	58.6	0.3
Utah	81.7	0.7	64.1	0.8
Vermont	90.6	0.8	70.9	1.3
Virginia	85.2	0.3	60.9	0.4
Washington	78.7	0.4	57.9	0.5
West Virginia	83.6	0.5	68.3	0.6
Wisconsin	86.0	0.3	73.1	0.4
Wyoming	84.9	1.1	71.5	1.3

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_6-2: 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_6-2.html