Table 1_2_1-3

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_2_1.3
Women age 18 and over who received a Pap smear within the last 3 years, by State, 2000 and 2006
	2006		2000
State	Percent^a	SE	Percent^a	SE
Total (all reporting States)	87.4	0.1	83.7	0.2
Alabama	87.5	0.8	84.9	1.1
Alaska	87.3	1.2	87.2	1.5
Arizona	88.2	0.9	85.7	1.3
Arkansas	82.5	0.7	80.9	1.0
California	87.2	0.6	82.7	1.0
Colorado	85.2	0.6	83.9	1.3
Connecticut	90.8	0.4	85.7	0.8
Delaware	91.3	0.6	90.5	0.9
District of Columbia	93.0	0.6	87.4	1.2
Florida	88.6	0.5	83.3	0.8
Georgia	90.8	0.4	86.0	0.9
Hawaii	90.6	0.6	86.9	0.8
Idaho	79.1	0.8	77.8	0.9
Illinois	86.4	0.6	81.8	0.9
Indiana	83.0	0.6	81.9	1.0
Iowa	87.7	0.5	84.0	1.0
Kansas	84.9	0.5	84.4	0.8
Kentucky	85.9	0.8	82.8	0.8
Louisiana	88.8	0.5	84.8	0.7
Maine	87.5	0.7	85.5	1.1
Maryland	92.1	0.4	87.7	0.8
Massachusetts	91.3	0.4	87.0	0.6
Michigan	88.5	0.6	85.4	1.1
Minnesota	87.3	0.6	83.2	1.0
Mississippi	84.7	0.6	83.9	1.1
Missouri	82.0	0.9	83.3	0.9
Montana	84.0	0.7	85.7	1.3
Nebraska	84.2	0.6	83.6	1.0
Nevada	83.4	1.1	79.2	1.7
New Hampshire	88.3	0.5	87.2	1.1
New Jersey	90.7	0.3	81.0	1.0
New Mexico	85.7	0.6	82.8	1.0
New York	90.2	0.5	84.7	1.0
North Carolina	88.9	0.4	87.7	0.8
North Dakota	85.6	0.7	80.7	1.3
Ohio	85.6	1.1	84.5	1.2
Oklahoma	80.0	0.6	83.1	0.9
Oregon	83.4	0.7	82.5	0.9
Pennsylvania	86.7	0.6	84.4	0.9
Rhode Island	91.3	0.5	86.2	1.0
South Carolina	87.1	0.5	87.9	0.8
South Dakota	87.6	0.5	86.9	0.7
Tennessee	90.8	0.6	84.6	0.9
Texas	86.4	0.8	79.6	0.9
Utah	79.5	0.8	78.7	1.3
Vermont	87.2	0.5	85.9	0.9
Virginia	89.2	0.7	84.2	1.6
Washington	84.5	0.3	81.9	0.9
West Virginia	84.5	0.8	80.9	1.2
Wisconsin	86.7	0.6	83.9	1.0
Wyoming	81.8	0.7	77.7	1.2

^a Estimates are age adjusted to the 2000 standard population using five age groups: 18–24, 25–34, 35–44, 45–64, and 65 and over.

Key: SE: standard error.

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System.

Current as of March 2010

Internet Citation: Table 1_2_1-3: 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_2_1-3.html