Table 1_3_4-2

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_3_4.2
Colorectal cancer diagnosed at advanced stage (regional and distant SEER summary stage) per 100,000 population age 50 and over, by State, 2004 and 2005
State	2005		2004
State	Rate^a	SE	Rate^a	SE
Alabama	84.4	3.5	78.3	2.4
Alaska	67.5	8.3	69.8	8.4
Arizona	61.2	1.9	64.1	2.0
Arkansas	81.9	3.1	92.0	3.3
California	77.6	0.9	79.9	1.0
Colorado	75.0	2.6	82.3	2.8
Delaware	88.0	5.9	91.1	6.1
District of Columbia	68.7	6.5	69.4	6.6
Florida	70.5	1.1	78.2	1.1
Georgia	77.6	1.9	88.9	2.1
Idaho	81.9	4.7	77.9	4.6
Illinois	89.4	1.6	97.1	1.7
Indiana	81.0	2.1	87.2	2.2
Kansas	72.3	3.0	84.5	3.3
Kentucky	88.0	2.7	98.9	2.9
Louisiana	97.8	4.0	100.3	2.9
Maine	83.4	4.4	86.0	4.5
Maryland	*	*	*	*
Massachusetts	82.0	2.1	92.5	2.2
Michigan	72.8	1.6	64.5	1.5
Minnesota	71.0	2.2	77.4	2.4
Mississippi	83.5	4.5	87.3	3.3
Missouri	85.8	2.2	82.5	2.2
Montana	73.4	5.0	82.2	5.3
Nebraska	102.0	4.4	101.6	4.5
Nevada	77.7	3.5	76.7	3.6
New Hampshire	82.6	4.7	80.4	4.7
New Jersey	97.2	2.0	94.8	1.9
New York	80.3	1.2	85.1	1.2
North Carolina	77.1	1.8	76.8	1.8
North Dakota	88.8	6.6	93.1	6.8
Ohio	75.5	1.5	85.3	1.6
Oklahoma	79.7	2.8	83.5	2.8
Oregon	82.4	2.8	86.3	2.9
Pennsylvania	92.9	1.5	94.9	1.5
Rhode Island	82.9	5.0	89.9	5.2
South Carolina	76.7	2.5	87.7	2.7
South Dakota	77.8	5.7	67.4	5.3
Tennessee	79.5	2.1	79.0	2.2
Texas	76.9	1.7	79.0	1.2
Vermont	68.1	6.0	74.3	6.3
Virginia	74.2	1.9	82.5	2.0
Washington	81.6	2.2	84.6	2.3
West Virginia	79.6	3.6	89.2	3.8
Wisconsin	*	*	*	*
Wyoming	79.5	7.5	84.4	7.7

^a Estimates are per 100,000 population age 50 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_3_4-2: 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_3_4-2.html