Table 12_1_4-2

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_4.2
Adult surgery patients who had prophylactic antibiotics discontinued within 24 hours after surgery end time, by State, 2005-2008
	2008		2007		2006		2005
State	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total	89.7	0.0	83.7	0.0	76.0	0.0	68.5	0.1
Alabama	89.2	0.2	83.5	0.3	74.5	0.3	66.6	0.4
Alaska	88.1	0.7	82.1	0.9	79.4	1.0	72.9	3.0
Arizona	87.5	0.3	80.0	0.3	71.3	0.4	52.2	0.7
Arkansas	89.4	0.3	84.2	0.3	76.9	0.4	70.1	0.5
California	87.0	0.1	78.8	0.1	68.5	0.2	57.8	0.3
Colorado	90.2	0.3	83.7	0.3	74.5	0.4	71.6	0.9
Connecticut	91.9	0.3	86.4	0.4	80.7	0.5	89.6	1.0
Delaware	90.5	0.6	87.2	0.6	81.7	0.7	77.5	0.7
District of Columbia	88.6	0.7	83.5	0.8	70.5	0.9	54.8	2.1
Florida	89.8	0.1	82.4	0.2	74.5	0.2	63.9	0.2
Georgia	87.9	0.2	79.4	0.3	70.8	0.3	60.8	0.5
Hawaii	85.5	0.6	81.1	0.6	71.1	0.8	55.1	1.6
Idaho	87.5	0.5	78.8	0.6	74.3	0.6	62.7	1.0
Illinois	89.5	0.2	83.1	0.2	75.0	0.2	67.8	0.3
Indiana	88.8	0.2	82.4	0.2	74.8	0.3	61.1	0.4
Iowa	91.6	0.3	84.6	0.3	79.1	0.4	75.8	0.6
Kansas	88.6	0.3	82.9	0.3	71.9	0.4	60.5	0.6
Kentucky	88.3	0.2	80.7	0.3	75.4	0.3	75.2	0.5
Louisiana	81.7	0.3	75.0	0.3	64.7	0.4	58.0	0.8
Maine	95.6	0.3	93.2	0.3	89.3	0.4	80.5	0.6
Maryland	90.8	0.2	85.7	0.3	76.9	0.3	66.5	0.4
Massachusetts	93.3	0.2	89.6	0.2	80.5	0.2	79.4	0.4
Michigan	92.7	0.1	90.2	0.1	84.7	0.2	78.2	0.3
Minnesota	93.1	0.2	89.4	0.2	82.2	0.3	69.1	0.7
Mississippi	87.4	0.3	81.2	0.4	72.4	0.4	60.6	0.5
Missouri	90.4	0.2	85.5	0.2	78.3	0.3	68.9	0.4
Montana	93.7	0.4	87.9	0.5	86.2	0.5	81.4	0.6
Nebraska	89.8	0.3	87.2	0.4	84.5	0.4	75.3	0.7
Nevada	82.8	0.5	70.3	0.6	59.3	0.6	38.3	1.1
New Hampshire	94.5	0.3	91.7	0.4	86.4	0.5	74.4	0.9
New Jersey	93.0	0.2	90.4	0.2	86.1	0.2	78.9	0.3
New Mexico	89.0	0.4	82.7	0.5	78.0	0.6	72.1	0.7
New York	90.3	0.1	84.9	0.2	76.5	0.2	63.6	0.3
North Carolina	92.5	0.2	88.5	0.2	81.3	0.2	74.6	0.3
North Dakota	93.4	0.4	84.3	0.6	74.2	0.8	67.1	1.0
Ohio	91.2	0.1	85.6	0.2	74.9	0.2	55.6	0.5
Oklahoma	89.9	0.2	85.9	0.3	80.2	0.3	82.1	0.4
Oregon	89.0	0.3	82.8	0.4	74.3	0.4	72.3	0.7
Pennsylvania	91.7	0.1	85.5	0.1	75.4	0.2	68.9	0.3
Puerto Rico	58.4	0.6	54.0	0.6	64.6	0.6	55.3	0.8
Rhode Island	93.8	0.4	88.6	0.5	78.2	0.8	77.5	1.6
South Carolina	91.8	0.2	86.7	0.3	80.6	0.3	76.3	0.4
South Dakota	95.1	0.3	93.0	0.4	90.5	0.4	84.2	0.6
Tennessee	88.8	0.2	83.1	0.2	76.2	0.3	71.6	0.4
Texas	87.1	0.1	78.7	0.2	68.8	0.2	65.4	0.3
Utah	87.0	0.4	78.1	0.5	71.0	0.5	62.4	0.8
Vermont	95.6	0.5	93.0	0.6	87.9	0.7	75.8	0.9
Virginia	90.8	0.2	85.7	0.2	80.4	0.2	72.7	0.5
Washington	91.7	0.2	86.0	0.2	77.9	0.3	71.9	0.8
West Virginia	90.8	0.3	85.5	0.4	81.2	0.4	76.1	0.4
Wisconsin	91.0	0.2	87.8	0.2	80.3	0.2	66.2	0.4
Wyoming	84.4	0.8	85.6	0.7	79.6	0.8	77.6	1.8

Key: SE: standard error.

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

Current as of February 2011

Internet Citation: Table 12_1_4-2: 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_4-2.html