Table 12_1_5-3

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_5.3
Postoperative sepsis per 1,000 elective surgery discharges with an operating room procedure (excluding patients admitted for infection; patients with cancer or immunocompromised states; obstetric conditions; stays under 4 days; and admissions specifically for sepsis), age 18 and over, by State, 2000, 2004-2007
	2007		2006		2005		2004		2000
State	Rate^a	SE	Rate^a	SE	Rate^a	SE	Rate^a	SE	Rate^a	SE
United States	15.4	0.1	15.1	0.1	13.7	0.1	13.2	0.1	9.6	0.1
Arizona	16.2	0.7	15.5	0.8	15.3	0.8	13.0	0.8	8.0	0.8
Arkansas	11.0	0.8	11.0	0.9	11.2	0.9	10.8	0.9	DNC	DNC
California	17.2	0.4	17.1	0.4	15.9	0.4	14.5	0.4	11.1	0.3
Colorado	15.7	0.9	16.6	0.9	14.5	0.9	14.6	0.9	9.2	1.0
Connecticut	14.4	1.1	13.4	1.1	12.9	1.1	12.0	1.1	9.8	1.0
Florida	20.6	0.4	17.7	0.5	16.8	0.4	14.0	0.4	12.0	0.4
Georgia	15.6	0.6	14.5	0.6	15.3	0.6	13.5	0.6	11.1	0.6
Hawaii	16.3	2.2	20.3	2.3	13.8	2.2	9.7	2.1	9.3	2.1
Illinois	13.7	0.5	12.8	0.5	12.5	0.5	12.2	0.5	9.5	0.5
Iowa	12.1	1.0	9.9	1.0	11.0	1.0	9.7	1.0	6.7	0.9
Kansas	13.6	1.1	11.6	1.0	10.7	1.1	11.0	1.0	7.6	0.9
Kentucky	17.1	0.6	16.0	0.7	16.6	0.7	16.4	0.7	14.1	0.7
Maine	11.1	1.6	10.8	1.7	DNC	DNC	DNC	DNC	DNC	DNC
Maryland	25.0	0.8	24.8	0.9	28.9	0.9	22.5	0.9	14.8	0.9
Massachusetts	10.9	0.8	10.7	0.8	8.9	0.8	8.8	0.7	6.7	0.7
Minnesota	11.5	0.7	9.0	0.7	9.5	0.7	8.3	0.7	DNC	DNC
Missouri	17.5	0.7	15.9	0.7	15.0	0.7	14.5	0.7	12.3	0.6
Nebraska	8.6	1.1	9.1	1.1	9.4	1.2	9.9	1.2	DNC	DNC
Nevada	19.9	1.3	20.5	1.4	16.3	1.3	16.1	1.3	DNC	DNC
New Hampshire	12.5	1.5	10.8	1.7	8.4	1.7	11.1	1.6	DNC	DNC
New Jersey	14.2	0.6	15.8	0.7	17.0	0.7	DNC	DNC	12.8	0.6
New York	17.6	0.5	15.2	0.5	14.1	0.5	13.7	0.5	9.5	0.4
North Carolina	11.3	0.6	12.4	0.7	10.7	0.7	11.6	0.7	6.9	0.7
Oklahoma	14.9	0.8	13.8	0.9	15.2	0.8	DNC	DNC	DNC	DNC
Oregon	11.8	0.9	9.6	1.0	7.7	1.0	8.1	1.0	6.1	0.9
Rhode Island	10.3	2.0	8.8	2.2	8.5	2.0	11.2	2.0	DNC	DNC
South Carolina	12.1	0.8	11.4	0.8	12.5	0.9	11.9	0.9	8.1	0.9
Tennessee	16.2	0.6	13.7	0.6	13.3	0.6	13.0	0.6	10.5	0.6
Utah	16.8	1.3	16.3	1.3	12.5	1.3	13.7	1.4	9.4	1.5
Vermont	13.7	3.3	DSU	DSU	12.1	3.2	DSU	DSU	DNC	DNC
Virginia	14.6	0.7	14.4	0.7	DNC	DNC	DNC	DNC	DNC	DNC
Washington	12.3	0.7	11.9	0.8	10.2	0.8	10.5	0.8	6.6	0.7
West Virginia	13.4	1.1	15.2	1.2	14.6	1.3	10.6	1.2	8.2	1.2
Wisconsin	12.2	0.7	10.8	0.8	8.4	0.8	9.0	0.8	6.6	0.8
Wyoming	DSU	DSU	DNC	DNC	DNC	DNC	DNC	DNC	DNC	DNC

^a Rates are adjusted by age, gender, age-gender interactions, comorbidities, and diagnosis-related group (DRG) clusters.

DNC - Data were not collected.

DSU - Data do not meet the criteria for statistical reliability, data quality, or confidentiality.

Note: Information on "admission type," which was used to identify elective admissions used to estimate these rates, was unavailable for California discharges. An indicator of scheduled admissions was instead used to identify elective admissions in California. For states that collected data on "admission type" but for which records were missing this information, an alternate algorithm based on "admission source" and nonemergency/nonurgent DRGs was used to identify elective admissions.

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).� Not all States participate in HCUP.� Estimates for the total United States are from the Nationwide Inpatient Sample, which is drawn from the SID and weighted to give national estimates.

Page last reviewed October 2014

Internet Citation: Table 12_1_5-3: 2010 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. October 2014. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://archive.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr10/12_patientsafety/T12_1_5-3.html