T14_4_1_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 14_4_1.2
Hospital patients with heart failure who were given complete written discharge instructions, by State,^a 2005-2009
	2009			2008		2007		2006		2005
State	Number	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total^b	632,221	86.4	0.04	82.0	0.1	76.0	0.1	68.7	0.1	57.4	0.1
Alabama	12,413	81.9	0.35	76.8	0.4	74.5	0.4	65.1	0.4	57.5	0.4
Alaska	730	75.3	1.60	52.0	1.8	54.3	1.8	51.4	1.8	34.2	1.9
Arizona	9,350	82.6	0.39	76.1	0.4	69.3	0.5	61.2	0.5	49.9	0.5
Arkansas	7,754	87.1	0.38	81.5	0.4	78.7	0.4	68.8	0.5	57.8	0.5
California	58,318	88.8	0.13	84.7	0.2	75.3	0.2	63.3	0.2	50.0	0.2
Colorado	5,006	86.9	0.48	87.3	0.5	81.3	0.5	73.4	0.6	52.2	0.7
Connecticut	5,780	82.7	0.50	79.5	0.5	72.5	0.6	70.6	0.6	62.5	0.6
Delaware	1,738	91.4	0.67	87.8	0.8	83.3	0.9	74.5	1.1	53.8	1.2
District of Columbia	1,922	69.8	1.05	66.2	1.1	55.6	1.0	54.9	0.9	54.5	1.1
Florida	44,570	89.4	0.15	84.5	0.2	76.6	0.2	67.7	0.2	58.2	0.2
Georgia	19,485	83.1	0.27	76.8	0.3	69.5	0.3	63.7	0.3	55.8	0.3
Hawaii	2,602	82.0	0.75	80.0	0.8	68.9	0.9	52.3	0.9	44.3	0.9
Idaho	1,300	85.5	0.98	82.7	1.0	83.7	1.0	75.7	1.2	60.3	1.3
Illinois	28,659	86.1	0.20	81.6	0.2	77.0	0.2	69.4	0.3	58.4	0.3
Indiana	14,341	83.5	0.31	82.3	0.3	80.4	0.3	72.4	0.4	63.5	0.4
Iowa	4,846	84.8	0.52	84.3	0.5	80.0	0.5	78.6	0.5	71.3	0.6
Kansas	4,487	79.2	0.61	74.3	0.7	66.7	0.7	63.5	0.7	51.6	0.7
Kentucky	13,173	80.3	0.35	74.3	0.4	67.8	0.4	61.3	0.4	50.2	0.4
Louisiana	13,473	82.7	0.33	77.0	0.4	70.7	0.4	67.2	0.4	58.6	0.4
Maine	2,597	89.1	0.61	85.3	0.7	77.6	0.8	67.9	0.9	63.6	1.0
Maryland	14,137	85.9	0.29	82.3	0.3	76.5	0.4	72.5	0.4	61.0	0.4
Massachusetts	13,182	88.0	0.28	80.4	0.4	73.2	0.4	70.9	0.4	59.5	0.4
Michigan	25,685	87.7	0.20	84.5	0.2	80.6	0.2	75.9	0.3	66.6	0.3
Minnesota	7,154	84.4	0.43	82.1	0.4	77.7	0.5	70.4	0.5	56.8	0.5
Mississippi	10,168	82.2	0.38	78.5	0.4	72.2	0.4	66.2	0.5	54.8	0.5
Missouri	14,193	85.2	0.30	82.5	0.3	78.2	0.3	72.7	0.4	63.0	0.4
Montana	1,474	79.4	1.05	74.7	1.2	71.9	1.2	65.3	1.2	51.4	1.2
Nebraska	2,818	85.1	0.67	81.3	0.7	80.3	0.7	78.0	0.7	66.7	0.8
Nevada	3,590	84.8	0.60	78.3	0.7	69.4	0.8	56.2	0.8	41.4	0.8
New Hampshire	2,074	90.4	0.65	88.7	0.7	86.7	0.8	77.5	0.9	65.3	1.1
New Jersey	17,728	90.7	0.22	89.1	0.2	83.8	0.3	79.4	0.3	71.1	0.3
New Mexico	2,601	78.0	0.81	71.9	0.9	56.1	1.0	42.7	0.9	27.2	0.9
New York	34,447	87.4	0.18	83.7	0.2	77.8	0.2	67.4	0.2	48.2	0.2
North Carolina	21,199	85.8	0.24	82.2	0.3	77.5	0.3	72.0	0.3	60.5	0.3
North Dakota	1,383	86.6	0.92	83.6	1.0	80.8	1.1	76.4	1.2	69.6	1.3
Ohio	28,039	90.1	0.18	85.8	0.2	82.0	0.2	77.4	0.2	68.0	0.2
Oklahoma	8,319	82.6	0.42	79.6	0.4	75.3	0.4	71.5	0.5	58.2	0.5
Oregon	5,300	81.6	0.53	73.9	0.6	67.1	0.6	53.5	0.7	42.2	0.7
Pennsylvania	39,974	88.2	0.16	83.5	0.2	77.6	0.2	68.4	0.2	54.6	0.2
Puerto Rico	6,813	75.9	0.52	70.4	0.6	57.6	0.6	69.6	0.6	59.6	0.6
Rhode Island	2,163	82.8	0.81	78.6	0.9	74.1	0.9	65.2	1.0	63.0	1.0
South Carolina	11,702	86.6	0.31	83.5	0.4	80.5	0.4	72.7	0.4	61.7	0.4
South Dakota	1,314	83.0	1.04	83.7	1.1	81.2	1.1	79.7	1.1	80.6	1.1
Tennessee	18,555	86.9	0.25	81.6	0.3	71.8	0.3	64.7	0.3	57.4	0.3
Texas	48,042	87.4	0.15	83.0	0.2	76.3	0.2	67.6	0.2	54.6	0.2
Utah	2,111	89.6	0.66	86.8	0.8	78.5	0.9	71.7	1.0	60.6	1.0
Vermont	736	87.1	1.24	85.0	1.3	81.2	1.5	81.5	1.4	68.2	1.6
Virginia	16,188	89.0	0.25	82.3	0.3	76.6	0.3	69.2	0.4	59.4	0.4
Washington	8,938	80.6	0.42	78.4	0.4	70.2	0.5	56.5	0.5	41.5	0.5
West Virginia	5,915	81.7	0.50	81.9	0.5	81.0	0.5	78.5	0.5	69.8	0.5
Wisconsin	9,881	83.8	0.37	79.8	0.4	77.4	0.4	73.5	0.4	64.5	0.5
Wyoming	667	72.1	1.74	68.5	1.9	63.7	2.0	63.1	1.9	54.8	1.9

^a. Written discharge instructions or educational material given to patient or caregiver at discharge or during the hospital stay addressing all of the following: activity level, diet, discharge medications, followup appointment, weight monitoring, and actions to take if symptoms worsen.

^b. 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: T14_4_1_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/nhqrdr11/14_patientcenteredness/T14_4_1_2.html