Table 12_3_9-3

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_3_9.3
Deaths per 1,000 admissions in low-mortality diagnosis-related groups (DRGs), age 18 and over or obstetric admissions, by State, 2000, 2005-2007
	2007		2006		2005		2000
State	Rate^a	SE	Rate^a	SE	Rate^a	SE	Rate^a	SE
United States	0.42	0.01	0.43	0.01	0.45	0.01	0.56	0.02
Arizona	0.41	0.05	0.32	0.04	0.44	0.05	0.49	0.06
Arkansas	0.60	0.08	0.66	0.08	0.61	0.07	DNC	DNC
California	0.41	0.02	0.48	0.02	0.45	0.02	0.59	0.03
Colorado	0.40	0.06	0.41	0.06	0.52	0.07	0.49	0.07
Connecticut	0.25	0.04	0.25	0.05	0.35	0.05	0.58	0.07
Florida	0.35	0.02	0.36	0.02	0.42	0.02	0.53	0.03
Georgia	0.56	0.05	0.51	0.05	0.60	0.05	0.71	0.06
Hawaii	0.47	0.14	0.52	0.13	0.56	0.13	0.49	0.14
Illinois	0.36	0.03	0.36	0.03	0.39	0.03	0.47	0.03
Iowa	0.44	0.07	0.46	0.08	0.65	0.09	0.96	0.10
Kansas	0.55	0.08	0.35	0.06	0.36	0.06	0.64	0.09
Kentucky	0.41	0.05	0.40	0.05	0.63	0.06	0.88	0.08
Maine	0.43	0.10	0.27	0.08	DNC	DNC	DNC	DNC
Maryland	0.37	0.04	0.28	0.04	0.60	0.05	0.51	0.06
Massachusetts	0.28	0.03	0.32	0.04	0.42	0.04	0.40	0.04
Minnesota	0.22	0.04	0.30	0.04	0.36	0.04	DNC	DNC
Missouri	0.34	0.04	0.42	0.04	0.50	0.04	0.64	0.06
Nebraska	0.44	0.09	0.51	0.09	0.45	0.08	DNC	DNC
Nevada	0.43	0.08	0.44	0.08	0.56	0.09	DNC	DNC
New Hampshire	0.43	0.11	0.53	0.13	0.54	0.13	DNC	DNC
New Jersey	0.43	0.04	0.52	0.04	0.47	0.04	0.77	0.05
New York	0.42	0.02	0.46	0.02	0.49	0.02	0.65	0.03
North Carolina	0.66	0.05	0.48	0.04	0.61	0.05	0.64	0.05
Oklahoma	0.48	0.06	0.52	0.06	0.50	0.06	DNC	DNC
Oregon	0.41	0.07	0.34	0.06	0.51	0.07	0.44	0.07
Rhode Island	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	0.46	0.11	DNC	DNC
South Carolina	0.47	0.06	0.60	0.07	0.52	0.06	0.75	0.08
Tennessee	0.59	0.06	0.57	0.06	0.49	0.05	0.71	0.06
Utah	0.54	0.11	0.39	0.09	0.38	0.08	0.49	0.11
Vermont	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	0.83	0.22	DNC	DNC
Virginia	0.49	0.05	0.45	0.05	DNC	DNC	DNC	DNC
Washington	0.28	0.04	0.39	0.05	0.56	0.06	0.43	0.06
West Virginia	0.52	0.08	0.41	0.08	0.47	0.07	0.66	0.10
Wisconsin	0.46	0.05	0.37	0.05	0.36	0.04	0.61	0.06
Wyoming	DSU	DSU	DNC	DNC	DNC	DNC	DNC	DNC

^a Rates are adjusted by age and gender using the total U.S. population for 2000 as the standard population.

DNC - Data were not collected.

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

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_3_9-3: 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_3_9-3.html