Table 12_1_2-1

2010 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 12_1_2.1
Adult surgery patients who received appropriate timing of antibiotics,^a United States, 2005-2008
		2008		2007		2006		2005
Population group		Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		91.4	0.0	86.4	0.0	80.3	0.0	74.9	0.0
Gender	Male	91.0	0.0	85.6	0.0	78.6	0.0	71.4	0.1
Gender	Female	91.6	0.0	86.8	0.0	81.2	0.0	76.7	0.1
Race	White	91.8	0.0	86.8	0.0	80.7	0.0	75.2	0.0
	Black	91.0	0.1	85.8	0.1	79.9	0.1	75.2	0.1
	Hispanic	86.8	0.1	80.9	0.1	74.7	0.1	69.8	0.2
	AI/AN	89.8	0.3	85.2	0.4	80.8	0.5	77.4	0.7
	Asian	90.6	0.2	84.6	0.2	78.0	0.3	70.8	0.5
Age	Under 65	92.0	0.0	87.4	0.0	82.1	0.0	77.5	0.1
	65-74	91.4	0.0	85.9	0.0	79.2	0.1	72.8	0.1
	75-84	90.5	0.0	85.0	0.1	78.0	0.1	71.7	0.1
	85 and over	88.0	0.1	82.2	0.1	74.2	0.1	68.6	0.2

^a Appropriate timing of antibiotics includes receiving prophylactic antibiotics within 1 hour prior to surgical incision and discontinuing the antibiotics within 24 hours after surgery end time.

Key: AI/AN: American Indian or Alaska Native; SE: standard error.

Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Medicare Quality Improvement Organization Program.

Current as of February 2011

Internet Citation: Table 12_1_2-1: 2010 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. February 2011. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr10/12_patientsafety/T12_1_2-1.html