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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
State20052004
RateaSERateaSE
Alabama101.34.299.13.0
Alaska86.99.079.78.5
Arizona73.22.382.82.5
Arkansas90.03.696.83.8
California93.71.193.41.1
Colorado94.63.187.83.0
Delaware91.06.695.16.8
District of Columbia112.49.095.78.4
Florida79.81.379.11.3
Georgia86.72.193.02.2
Idaho82.95.287.65.4
Illinois93.81.897.21.8
Indiana81.42.379.92.3
Kansas100.84.090.63.8
Kentucky87.22.990.63.0
Louisiana95.14.2101.83.1
Maine92.55.188.75.0
Maryland****
Massachusetts88.42.394.72.4
Michigan78.91.883.01.9
Minnesota95.02.892.72.8
Mississippi91.85.299.13.8
Missouri90.32.597.32.6
Montana94.36.386.46.1
Nebraska93.74.893.44.8
Nevada77.83.876.13.9
New Hampshire85.75.192.95.4
New Jersey103.72.2101.32.2
New York86.61.390.01.4
North Carolina91.32.187.52.1
North Dakota77.97.184.27.4
Ohio86.91.794.31.8
Oklahoma99.23.4104.93.5
Oregon90.63.293.33.3
Pennsylvania95.61.798.21.7
Rhode Island86.75.798.86.1
South Carolina90.52.997.33.1
South Dakota85.46.884.06.8
Tennessee99.82.690.32.5
Texas93.02.090.81.4
Vermont82.67.191.27.6
Virginia86.52.289.82.3
Washington98.02.698.92.6
West Virginia90.94.396.54.5
Wisconsin****
Wyoming94.18.892.38.8

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://archive.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr08/1_cancer/T1_1_2-2.html

 

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