2007 National Healthcare Disparities Report: Data Tables Appendix--Table 152

You Are Here: AHRQ Home > Quality Assessment > Measuring Healthcare Quality > National Healthcare Quality & Disparities Reports, 2007 > Disparities Report, Data Tables Appendix

Table 152
Percent of adult surgery patients who received appropriate timing of antibiotics,^a all payers, United States, 2005

Population group		Percent	SE
Total		75.19	0.19
Gender	Male	71.42	0.08
Gender	Female	76.67	0.05
Race	White	75.20	0.05
	Black	75.20	0.14
	Hispanic	69.77	0.21
	Native American	77.45	0.70
	Asian	70.76	0.46
Age	Under 65	77.48	0.06
	65-74	72.80	0.09
	75-84	71.75	0.10
	85 and over	68.55	0.22

^a Appropriate timing of antibiotics includes receiving prophylactic antibiotics within 1 hour prior to surgical incision, and discontinuing the antibiotics within 24 hours after surgery end time.

Key: SE: standard error.

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