Table 1_3_5-1

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_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 2006
		2006		2003
Population group		Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		66.8	0.3	51.7	0.3
Anatomic location	Right	74.8	0.3	60.5	0.4
	Transverse	63.1	0.8	47.5	0.9
	Sigmoid	57.1	0.4	41.0	0.4
Age	Under age 40	84.1	1.4	70.2	1.9
	40–49	75.1	0.9	64.3	1.1
	50–59	68.7	0.6	55.1	0.7
	60–69	66.3	0.5	51.2	0.6
	70–79	65.8	0.5	49.9	0.5
	80 and over	64.0	0.5	48.5	0.5
Race	American Indian/Alaska Native	61.3	6.2	55.6	6.3
	Asian	69.3	1.5	56.4	1.7
	Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	Black only	65.9	0.7	52.4	0.8
	White only	66.9	0.3	51.4	0.3
Ethnicity	Hispanic, all races	67.1	1.2	52.5	1.3
	Non-Hispanic, other	68.8	1.5	55.8	1.7
	Non-Hispanic, Black	66.0	0.8	52.2	0.8
	Non-Hispanic, White	66.9	0.3	51.4	0.3
Health insurance, under age 65	Private	69.8	0.5	56.2	0.5
	Public only	65.4	0.3	49.5	0.3
	Uninsured/other	68.2	0.7	54.3	0.7
Health insurance, age 65 and over	Medicare only	64.4	0.8	48.4	0.7
Health insurance, age 65 and over	Medicare and supplement	65.2	0.4	49.4	0.4
Family income^a	Negative/poor	68.4	3.2	58.9	3.3
	Near poor/low	66.0	0.3	50.5	0.3
	Middle	69.5	0.5	55.0	0.6
	High	70.2	1.6	56.5	1.7
Residence location	Metropolitan	67.9	0.3	52.8	0.3
	Large metropolitan, more than 1 million	68.5	0.4	53.8	0.4
	Small metropolitan, less than 1 million	66.8	0.4	51.4	0.5
	Micropolitan	60.1	0.9	43.9	0.9
	Noncore	66.1	1.0	49.2	1.0
	Noncore, adjacent	66.5	1.1	49.6	1.2
	Noncore, rural	64.7	2.0	48.0	2.3

^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.

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_3_5-1: 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_3_5-1.html