Table 1_1_4-1

2009 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_4.1
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 2006
		2006^b		1999
Population group		Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		75.2	0.3	73.7	0.2
Age	Under age 40	68.1	1.2	68.2	0.8
	40–49	73.5	0.5	71.7	0.4
	50–59	75.5	0.4	74.4	0.3
	60–69	77.4	0.5	75.6	0.3
Race	American Indian/Alaska Native	81.0	5.0	72.5	4.3
	Asian	72.5	1.6	73.2	1.3
	Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	Black only	68.5	0.9	68.8	0.7
	White only	76.5	0.3	74.6	0.2
Ethnicity	Hispanic, all races	61.6	1.3	65.4	1.1
	Non-Hispanic, other	73.3	1.6	73.7	1.2
	Non-Hispanic, Black	68.6	0.9	68.9	0.7
	Non-Hispanic, White	77.4	0.3	75.1	0.2
Health insurance, under age 65	Private	76.0	0.4	75.3	0.3
	Public only	74.6	0.6	72.9	0.5
	Uninsured/other	73.6	0.6	72.2	0.3
Health insurance, ages 65–70	Medicare only	70.6	2.0	72.4	1.1
Health insurance, ages 65–70	Medicare and supplement	79.5	0.8	76.2	0.7
Family income^a	Negative/poor	65.7	4.7	69.7	3.4
	Near poor/low	75.1	0.3	74.0	0.2
	Middle	75.7	0.5	73.1	0.4
	High	76.2	1.4	71.8	1.0
Residence location	Metropolitan	74.8	0.3	73.2	0.2
	Large metropolitan, more than 1 million	73.5	0.4	71.4	0.3
	Small metropolitan, less than 1 million	77.4	0.5	76.7	0.4
	Micropolitan	78.4	0.9	75.8	0.7
	Noncore	78.9	1.1	75.0	0.8
	Noncore, adjacent	80.2	1.2	75.1	1.0
	Noncore, rural	74.7	2.3	74.8	1.7

^a Negative/poor refers to household incomes below the Federal poverty line; near poor/low, the poverty line to just below 200 percent of the poverty line; middle, 200 percent to just below 400 percent of the poverty line; and high, 400 percent of the poverty line and over. Family income is based on median ZIP Code income as of Census 2000.

^b Concordance computed for diagnosis months January-June 2006.

DSU - 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 March 2010

Internet Citation: Table 1_1_4-1: 2009 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. March 2010. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr09/1_cancer/T1_1_4-1.html