T12_3_8_3

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_3_8.3
Deaths per 1,000 elective-surgery admissions having developed specified complications of care during hospitalization,^a ages 18-89 or obstetric admissions,^b by State, 2000, 2004, 2007, and 2008
	2008		2007		2004		2000
State	Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE
Total	122.1	0.7	119.0	0.7	137.9	0.7	159.5	0.7
Arizona	75.7	6.7	79.0	6.8	106.0	4.4	135.5	5.5
Arkansas	135.4	8.4	103.3	8.2	152.0	6.7	DNC	DNC
California	142.2	1.9	145.2	1.9	163.9	2.2	191.6	2.2
Florida	132.5	2.2	135.7	2.2	137.8	2.4	160.4	2.5
Georgia	126.4	5.9	120.3	5.8	152.4	4.0	172.0	4.3
Hawaii	146.7	17.4	166.3	18.0	197.5	11.2	171.2	12.2
Illinois	93.9	4.6	85.7	4.4	93.2	4.7	104.6	4.9
Indiana	107.5	5.8	111.5	5.8	141.0	4.2	DNC	DNC
Iowa	85.9	9.1	100.1	9.2	120.8	6.7	145.6	6.6
Kentucky	105.7	5.8	93.9	5.9	122.4	4.7	158.3	5.0
Louisiana	126.1	6.6	DNC	DNC	DNC	DNC	DNC	DNC
Maine	116.2	16.5	106.9	16.2	DNC	DNC	126.5	10.6
Maryland	93.3	6.9	100.7	6.8	133.4	4.5	162.2	5.1
Minnesota	74.2	7.2	70.5	7.3	106.1	4.8	DNC	DNC
Nebraska	87.7	10.6	92.8	10.6	111.4	8.2	DNC	DNC
Nevada	132.9	10.7	114.3	10.9	155.3	7.0	DNC	DNC
New Hampshire	64.4	16.1	98.0	15.2	144.0	11.1	DNC	DNC
New Jersey	112.5	5.7	101.6	5.9	143.2	3.9	168.7	3.9
North Carolina	123.3	3.3	127.6	3.5	143.8	3.8	167.5	4.3
Oregon	124.9	9.8	107.2	9.7	137.9	6.2	133.8	7.1
Rhode Island	166.4	19.4	141.4	19.1	158.4	10.9	DNC	DNC
South Carolina	106.3	8.4	117.3	8.2	150.5	5.8	167.8	6.2
South Dakota	152.9	17.5	93.3	20.4	111.2	12.3	DNC	DNC
Tennessee	117.6	5.8	110.7	5.7	139.6	4.1	169.8	4.6
Texas	111.8	3.4	119.1	3.3	139.6	2.5	161.9	2.8
Utah	71.2	11.7	95.8	12.5	97.8	13.4	120.9	15.1
Washington	106.1	5.4	90.8	7.0	114.3	7.1	137.7	8.2
West Virginia	129.1	10.0	114.0	18.6	103.7	11.3	138.8	12.3
Wyoming	130.2	31.2	110.0	32.2	DNC	DNC	DNC	DNC

^a. Consistent with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Patient Safety Indicators (PSI) software, complications of care include acute renal failure, pneumonia, pulmonary embolism, deep vein thrombosis, sepsis, shock, cardiac arrest, gastroentestinal hemorrhage, and acute ulcer. Excludes transfers to another hospital.� The AHRQ PSI software requires that the complication be reported as a secondary diagnosis (rather than the principal diagnosis), but unlike the AHRQ PSI software, the secondary diagnosis could be present on admission.� In addition, the surgery is not verifiable as occurring in the first 2 days of the inpatient stay.

^b. Rates are adjusted by age, comorbidities, major diagnostic category (MDC), diagnosis-related group (DRG), and transfers into the hospital.� The AHRQ PSI software was modified to not use the present on admission (POA) indicators (or estimates of the likelihood of POA for secondary diagnosis).

DNC - Data were not collected.

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, modified version 4.1.� State estimates are from the State Inpatient Databases (SID), and 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: T12_3_8_3: 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_3_8_3.html