Table 1_2_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_2_2.2
Cervical cancer diagnosed at advanced stage (all invasive tumors) per 100,000 women age 20 and over, by State, 2004 and 2005
State	2005		2004
State	Rate^a	SE	Rate^a	SE
Alabama	12.0	1.2	11.6	0.8
Alaska	12.3	2.5	9.5	2.2
Arizona	8.8	0.7	10.2	0.7
Arkansas	13.7	1.2	14.0	1.2
California	11.7	0.3	11.4	0.3
Colorado	8.9	0.7	8.4	0.7
Delaware	12.1	2.0	11.7	1.9
District of Columbia	17.9	2.9	17.8	2.8
Florida	13.3	0.4	12.5	0.4
Georgia	11.4	0.6	11.2	0.6
Idaho	10.4	1.5	8.0	1.3
Illinois	11.8	0.5	11.9	0.5
Indiana	9.8	0.7	11.3	0.7
Kansas	10.8	1.1	10.6	1.1
Kentucky	13.0	0.9	13.9	1.0
Louisiana	12.6	1.2	13.2	0.9
Maine	8.8	1.4	12.8	1.6
Maryland	*	*	*	*
Massachusetts	8.4	0.6	9.7	0.6
Michigan	9.7	0.5	9.9	0.5
Minnesota	8.8	0.7	8.6	0.7
Mississippi	10.2	1.4	13.2	1.1
Missouri	11.3	0.7	12.1	0.8
Montana	5.0	1.2	9.4	1.7
Nebraska	10.4	1.3	9.8	1.3
Nevada	14.1	1.3	11.0	1.2
New Hampshire	10.4	1.5	7.1	1.2
New Jersey	11.6	0.6	13.1	0.6
New York	12.5	0.4	11.4	0.4
North Carolina	11.4	0.6	11.8	0.6
North Dakota	7.4	1.8	9.1	2.1
Ohio	11.1	0.5	10.8	0.5
Oklahoma	11.8	1.0	11.2	0.9
Oregon	8.1	0.8	7.7	0.8
Pennsylvania	11.0	0.5	10.8	0.5
Rhode Island	11.1	1.7	15.3	1.9
South Carolina	10.7	0.8	11.2	0.8
South Dakota	12.0	2.2	9.7	1.9
Tennessee	12.5	0.8	12.1	0.7
Texas	12.8	0.6	13.3	0.4
Vermont	8.2	1.8	9.4	2.0
Virginia	9.4	0.6	9.0	0.6
Washington	9.2	0.6	9.5	0.7
West Virginia	14.8	1.5	13.2	1.4
Wisconsin	*	*	*	*
Wyoming	9.4	2.2	13.6	3.0

^a Estimates are per 100,000 women age 20 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_2_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_2_2-2.html