Table 1_1_3-1

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_3.1
Women under age 70 treated for breast cancer with breast-conserving surgery who received radiation therapy to the breast within 1 year of diagnosis, United States, 1999 and 2005
Population group		2005		1999
Population group		Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		74.0	0.3	73.7	0.2
Age	Under 40	66.4	1.2	68.2	0.8
	40–49	72.1	0.6	71.7	0.4
	50–59	75.0	0.4	74.4	0.3
	60–69	75.9	0.5	75.6	0.3
Race	American Indian/Alaska Native	*	*	72.5	4.3
	Asian	71.0	1.7	73.2	1.3
	Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander	*	*	*	*
	Black only	68.1	0.9	68.8	0.7
	White only	75.3	0.3	74.6	0.2
Ethnicity	Hispanic, all races	61.5	1.4	65.4	1.1
	Non-Hispanic, other	71.5	1.6	73.7	1.2
	Non-Hispanic, Black	68.3	0.9	68.9	0.7
	Non-Hispanic, White	76.0	0.3	75.1	0.2
Health insurance, under age 65	Private	74.7	0.4	75.3	0.3
	Public only	73.7	0.6	72.9	0.5
	Uninsured/other	72.8	0.5	72.2	0.3
Health insurance, ages 65–70	Medicare only	71.0	1.9	72.4	1.1
Health insurance, ages 65–70	Medicare and supplement	78.0	0.9	76.2	0.7
Family income^a	Negative/poor	*	*	69.7	3.4
	Near poor/low	74.0	0.4	74.0	0.2
	Middle	75.2	0.5	73.1	0.4
	High	72.2	1.4	71.8	1.0
Residence location	Metropolitan	73.9	0.3	73.2	0.2
	Large metropolitan, more than 1 million	72.3	0.4	71.4	0.3
	Small metropolitan, less than 1 million	76.6	0.5	76.7	0.4
	Micropolitan	77.2	0.9	75.8	0.7
	Noncore	75.9	1.1	75.0	0.8
	Noncore, adjacent	76.7	1.2	75.1	1.0
	Noncore, rural	73.1	2.5	74.8	1.7

^a Negative/poor refers to household incomes below $17,500; near poor/low, over the poverty line to just below 200 percent of the Federal poverty line; middle, 200 percent to just below 400 percent of the poverty line; and high, 400 percent of the poverty line and over.

* - Data do not meet the criteria for statistical reliability, data quality, or confidentiality.

Key: SE: standard error.

Source: Commission on Cancer, American College of Surgeons and American Cancer Society, National Cancer Data Base.

Current as of September 2009

Internet Citation: Table 1_1_3-1: 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_3-1.html