Table 8_2_7-3

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_7.3
Deaths per 1,000 admissions with pneumonia as principal diagnosis (excluding obstetric admissions and transfers to another hospital), age 18 and over, by State, 2000 and 2006
	2006		2000
State	Rate^a	SE	Rate^a	SE
Total	44.9	0.2	74.0	0.2
Arizona	31.4	1.7	55.1	1.9
Arkansas	60.7	2.1	DNC	DNC
California	47.1	0.7	72.6	0.7
Colorado	30.6	2.2	54.9	2.4
Connecticut	41.5	1.8	67.4	1.9
Florida	35.9	0.9	62.7	0.9
Georgia	49.2	1.4	80.0	1.4
Hawaii	67.3	3.7	77.2	3.9
Illinois	42.2	1.1	66.7	1.0
Iowa	50.2	2.2	74.1	2.2
Kansas	47.4	2.2	72.2	2.3
Kentucky	45.8	1.6	76.8	1.6
Maine	50.0	3.5	DNC	DNC
Maryland	29.8	1.6	61.3	1.7
Massachusetts	44.6	1.4	76.4	1.4
Michigan	32.8	1.2	66.3	1.2
Minnesota	40.2	2.0	DNC	DNC
Missouri	44.3	1.5	73.9	1.5
Nebraska	60.5	2.9	DNC	DNC
Nevada	40.0	2.8	DNC	DNC
New Hampshire	54.8	3.7	DNC	DNC
New Jersey	42.1	1.3	75.2	1.2
New York	55.3	0.9	87.8	0.8
North Carolina	53.5	1.4	87.9	1.4
Oklahoma	55.4	1.8	DNC	DNC
Oregon	48.3	2.4	76.1	2.5
Rhode Island	48.1	3.3	DNC	DNC
South Carolina	56.6	2.0	87.4	2.0
Tennessee	52.2	1.4	84.5	1.3
Texas	44.2	0.9	75.1	0.9
Utah	40.0	3.4	61.8	3.4
Vermont	61.6	5.6	DNC	DNC
Virginia	48.0	1.6	DNC	DNC
Washington	41.9	1.9	67.8	1.9
West Virginia	51.4	2.2	76.8	2.2
Wisconsin	43.2	1.7	75.7	1.8

^a Rates are adjusted by age, gender, age-gender interactions, and All Patient Refined-Diagnosis Related Group (APR-DRG) risk of mortality score.

DNC - Data were not collected.

Key: SE: standard error.

Source: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Center for Delivery, Organization, and Markets, Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) databases and AHRQ Quality Indicators, version 3.1. State estimates are from the State Inpatient Databases (SID), and not all States participate in HCUP. Estimates for the total U.S. are from the Nationwide Inpatient Sample, which is drawn from the SID and weighted to give national estimates.

Current as of March 2010

Internet Citation: Table 8_2_7-3: 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_7-3.html