Table 1_1_2-2

2008 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 1_1_2.2
Breast cancer diagnosed at advanced stage (regional and distant SEER summary stage) per 100,000 women age 40 and over, by State, 2004 and 2005
State	2005		2004
State	Rate^a	SE	Rate^a	SE
Alabama	101.3	4.2	99.1	3.0
Alaska	86.9	9.0	79.7	8.5
Arizona	73.2	2.3	82.8	2.5
Arkansas	90.0	3.6	96.8	3.8
California	93.7	1.1	93.4	1.1
Colorado	94.6	3.1	87.8	3.0
Delaware	91.0	6.6	95.1	6.8
District of Columbia	112.4	9.0	95.7	8.4
Florida	79.8	1.3	79.1	1.3
Georgia	86.7	2.1	93.0	2.2
Idaho	82.9	5.2	87.6	5.4
Illinois	93.8	1.8	97.2	1.8
Indiana	81.4	2.3	79.9	2.3
Kansas	100.8	4.0	90.6	3.8
Kentucky	87.2	2.9	90.6	3.0
Louisiana	95.1	4.2	101.8	3.1
Maine	92.5	5.1	88.7	5.0
Maryland	*	*	*	*
Massachusetts	88.4	2.3	94.7	2.4
Michigan	78.9	1.8	83.0	1.9
Minnesota	95.0	2.8	92.7	2.8
Mississippi	91.8	5.2	99.1	3.8
Missouri	90.3	2.5	97.3	2.6
Montana	94.3	6.3	86.4	6.1
Nebraska	93.7	4.8	93.4	4.8
Nevada	77.8	3.8	76.1	3.9
New Hampshire	85.7	5.1	92.9	5.4
New Jersey	103.7	2.2	101.3	2.2
New York	86.6	1.3	90.0	1.4
North Carolina	91.3	2.1	87.5	2.1
North Dakota	77.9	7.1	84.2	7.4
Ohio	86.9	1.7	94.3	1.8
Oklahoma	99.2	3.4	104.9	3.5
Oregon	90.6	3.2	93.3	3.3
Pennsylvania	95.6	1.7	98.2	1.7
Rhode Island	86.7	5.7	98.8	6.1
South Carolina	90.5	2.9	97.3	3.1
South Dakota	85.4	6.8	84.0	6.8
Tennessee	99.8	2.6	90.3	2.5
Texas	93.0	2.0	90.8	1.4
Vermont	82.6	7.1	91.2	7.6
Virginia	86.5	2.2	89.8	2.3
Washington	98.0	2.6	98.9	2.6
West Virginia	90.9	4.3	96.5	4.5
Wisconsin	*	*	*	*
Wyoming	94.1	8.8	92.3	8.8

^a Estimates are per 100,000 women age 40 and over, and are age-adjusted to the 2000 U.S. standard million population by 5-year age groups.

* - Registry did not meet the data quality criteria for all invasive cancers combined. Data quality criteria include: case ascertainment is 90% or more complete; no more than 5% of cases are ascertained solely on the basis of a death certificate; no more than 3% of cases are missing information on sex; no more than 3% of cases are missing information on age; no more than 5% percent are missing information on race; at least 97% of the registry's records passed a set of core single-field, inter-field, and inter-record computerized edits.

Key: SE: standard error.

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Program of Cancer Registries.

Current as of September 2009

Internet Citation: Table 1_1_2-2: 2008 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. September 2009. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr08/1_cancer/T1_1_2-2.html