Table 1_3_5-1

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_3_5.1
Patients with colon cancer who received recommended treatment: resected colon specimen had at least 12 regional lymph nodes pathologically examined, United States, 2003 and 2005
Population group		2005		2003
Population group		Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		59.9	0.3	51.5	0.3
Anatomic location	Right	67.9	0.3	60.2	0.4
	Transverse	56.8	0.9	47.3	0.8
	Sigmoid	50.1	0.4	40.9	0.4
Age	Under 40	77.5	1.6	67.9	1.8
	40–49	69.6	1.0	63.9	1.1
	50–59	62.3	0.6	54.9	0.7
	60–69	59.2	0.6	51.1	0.6
	70–79	58.5	0.5	49.8	0.5
	80 and over	57.0	0.5	48.1	0.5
Race	American Indian/Alaska Native	*	*	*	*
	Asian	64.9	1.6	56.6	1.7
	Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander	*	*	*	*
	Black only	58.2	0.8	52.1	0.8
	White only	59.9	0.3	51.2	0.3
Ethnicity	Hispanic, all races	60.7	1.2	52.4	1.3
	Non-Hispanic, other	63.8	1.6	56.2	1.7
	Non-Hispanic, Black	58.2	0.8	51.8	0.8
	Non-Hispanic, White	60.1	0.3	51.1	0.3
Health insurance, under age 65	Private	62.6	0.5	56.0	0.5
	Public only	58.3	0.3	49.3	0.3
	Uninsured/other	62.3	0.7	54.1	0.7
Health insurance, age 65 and over	Medicare only	57.0	0.7	48.3	0.7
Health insurance, age 65 and over	Medicare and supplement	58.4	0.4	49.2	0.4
Family income^a	Negative/poor	57.1	3.5	58.5	3.3
	Near poor/low	58.4	0.3	50.3	0.3
	Middle	63.8	0.5	54.7	0.5
	High	66.7	1.6	56.2	1.7
Residence location	Metropolitan	61.0	0.3	52.6	0.3
	Large metropolitan, more than 1 million	61.9	0.4	53.4	0.4
	Small metropolitan, less than 1 million	59.6	0.5	51.3	0.5
	Micropolitan	51.6	0.9	43.8	0.9
	Noncore	58.7	1.0	49.2	1.0
	Noncore, adjacent	59.2	1.2	49.4	1.1
	Noncore, rural	56.7	2.2	48.3	2.3

^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_3_5-1: 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_3_5-1.html