T12_1_4_2

2011 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, 2005-2009
	2009			2008		2007		2006		2005
State	Number	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total^a	1,028,096	93.3	0.02	89.7	0.0	83.7	0.0	76.0	0.0	68.5	0.1
Alabama	16,308	92.3	0.21	89.2	0.2	83.5	0.3	74.5	0.3	66.6	0.4
Alaska	2,420	94.9	0.45	88.1	0.7	82.1	0.9	79.4	1.0	72.9	3.0
Arizona	19,024	91.5	0.20	87.5	0.3	80.0	0.3	71.3	0.4	52.2	0.7
Arkansas	11,731	92.6	0.24	89.4	0.3	84.2	0.3	76.9	0.4	70.1	0.5
California	81,042	91.6	0.10	87.0	0.1	78.8	0.1	68.5	0.2	57.8	0.3
Colorado	14,095	93.5	0.21	90.2	0.3	83.7	0.3	74.5	0.4	71.6	0.9
Connecticut	9,238	93.8	0.25	91.9	0.3	86.4	0.4	80.7	0.5	89.6	1.0
Delaware	2,800	96.8	0.33	90.5	0.6	87.2	0.6	81.7	0.7	77.5	0.7
District of Columbia	2,121	91.5	0.61	88.6	0.7	83.5	0.8	70.5	0.9	54.8	2.1
Florida	57,951	94.1	0.10	89.8	0.1	82.4	0.2	74.5	0.2	63.9	0.2
Georgia	23,287	92.0	0.18	87.9	0.2	79.4	0.3	70.8	0.3	60.8	0.5
Hawaii	3,676	89.5	0.51	85.5	0.6	81.1	0.6	71.1	0.8	55.1	1.6
Idaho	5,095	92.1	0.38	87.5	0.5	78.8	0.6	74.3	0.6	62.7	1.0
Illinois	40,862	93.2	0.12	89.5	0.2	83.1	0.2	75.0	0.2	67.8	0.3
Indiana	26,337	93.2	0.16	88.8	0.2	82.4	0.2	74.8	0.3	61.1	0.4
Iowa	10,766	94.3	0.22	91.6	0.3	84.6	0.3	79.1	0.4	75.8	0.6
Kansas	13,923	92.1	0.23	88.6	0.3	82.9	0.3	71.9	0.4	60.5	0.6
Kentucky	19,928	92.7	0.18	88.3	0.2	80.7	0.3	75.4	0.3	75.2	0.5
Louisiana	18,299	88.5	0.24	81.7	0.3	75.0	0.3	64.7	0.4	58.0	0.8
Maine	6,071	96.9	0.22	95.6	0.3	93.2	0.3	89.3	0.4	80.5	0.6
Maryland	19,755	93.1	0.18	90.8	0.2	85.7	0.3	76.9	0.3	66.5	0.4
Massachusetts	23,864	95.1	0.14	93.3	0.2	89.6	0.2	80.5	0.2	79.4	0.4
Michigan	41,131	94.5	0.11	92.7	0.1	90.2	0.1	84.7	0.2	78.2	0.3
Minnesota	18,670	95.9	0.14	93.1	0.2	89.4	0.2	82.2	0.3	69.1	0.7
Mississippi	12,172	92.0	0.25	87.4	0.3	81.2	0.4	72.4	0.4	60.6	0.5
Missouri	22,630	93.1	0.17	90.4	0.2	85.5	0.2	78.3	0.3	68.9	0.4
Montana	5,132	95.7	0.28	93.7	0.4	87.9	0.5	86.2	0.5	81.4	0.6
Nebraska	9,855	92.7	0.26	89.8	0.3	87.2	0.4	84.5	0.4	75.3	0.7
Nevada	6,884	91.3	0.34	82.8	0.5	70.3	0.6	59.3	0.6	38.3	1.1
New Hampshire	4,580	96.0	0.29	94.5	0.3	91.7	0.4	86.4	0.5	74.4	0.9
New Jersey	22,314	94.9	0.15	93.0	0.2	90.4	0.2	86.1	0.2	78.9	0.3
New Mexico	5,474	93.1	0.34	89.0	0.4	82.7	0.5	78.0	0.6	72.1	0.7
New York	45,456	92.8	0.12	90.3	0.1	84.9	0.2	76.5	0.2	63.6	0.3
North Carolina	34,692	95.4	0.11	92.5	0.2	88.5	0.2	81.3	0.2	74.6	0.3
North Dakota	3,159	95.1	0.38	93.4	0.4	84.3	0.6	74.2	0.8	67.1	1.0
Ohio	46,551	94.2	0.11	91.2	0.1	85.6	0.2	74.9	0.2	55.6	0.5
Oklahoma	17,695	93.4	0.19	89.9	0.2	85.9	0.3	80.2	0.3	82.1	0.4
Oregon	12,088	93.1	0.23	89.0	0.3	82.8	0.4	74.3	0.4	72.3	0.7
Pennsylvania	74,933	94.2	0.09	91.7	0.1	85.5	0.1	75.4	0.2	68.9	0.3
Puerto Rico	7,622	67.5	0.54	58.4	0.6	54.0	0.6	64.6	0.6	55.3	0.8
Rhode Island	3,334	95.4	0.36	93.8	0.4	88.6	0.5	78.2	0.8	77.5	1.6
South Carolina	16,702	94.3	0.18	91.8	0.2	86.7	0.3	80.6	0.3	76.3	0.4
South Dakota	4,899	94.8	0.32	95.1	0.3	93.0	0.4	90.5	0.4	84.2	0.6
Tennessee	25,240	92.5	0.17	88.8	0.2	83.1	0.2	76.2	0.3	71.6	0.4
Texas	73,768	91.7	0.10	87.1	0.1	78.7	0.2	68.8	0.2	65.4	0.3
Utah	7,368	91.8	0.32	87.0	0.4	78.1	0.5	71.0	0.5	62.4	0.8
Vermont	1,979	96.4	0.42	95.6	0.5	93.0	0.6	87.9	0.7	75.8	0.9
Virginia	25,380	94.4	0.14	90.8	0.2	85.7	0.2	80.4	0.2	72.7	0.5
Washington	18,588	94.7	0.16	91.7	0.2	86.0	0.2	77.9	0.3	71.9	0.8
West Virginia	10,684	93.2	0.24	90.8	0.3	85.5	0.4	81.2	0.4	76.1	0.4
Wisconsin	25,898	94.0	0.15	91.0	0.2	87.8	0.2	80.3	0.2	66.2	0.4
Wyoming	2,247	92.3	0.56	84.4	0.8	85.6	0.7	79.6	0.8	77.6	1.8

^a. 2009 data do not include data from the U.S. territories (Guam, Puerto Rico, and Virgin Islands); other years do not include Guam and U.S. Virgin Islands.

Key: SE: standard error.

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

Page last reviewed October 2014

Internet Citation: T12_1_4_2: 2011 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. October 2014. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://archive.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr11/12_patientsafety/T12_1_4_2.html