Table 1_3_5-2a

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_5.2a
Patients with colon cancer who received recommended treatment: resected colon specimen had at least 12 regional lymph nodes pathologically examined, by race, United States, 2006
		Total		White only		Black only		Asian
Population group		Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		66.8	0.3	66.9	0.3	65.9	0.7	69.3	1.5
Anatomic location	Right	74.8	0.3	74.7	0.4	74.6	0.9	77.8	2.2
	Transverse	63.1	0.8	63.9	0.9	57.7	2.5	DSU	DSU
	Sigmoid	57.1	0.4	57.1	0.5	55.7	1.3	63.5	2.2
Age	Under age 40	84.1	1.4	84.0	1.6	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	40–49	75.1	0.9	74.9	1.1	74.1	2.3	DSU	DSU
	50–59	68.7	0.6	68.4	0.7	68.8	1.4	71.3	3.4
	60–69	66.3	0.5	66.8	0.6	62.8	1.5	71.0	3.1
	70–79	65.8	0.5	66.2	0.5	63.6	1.5	62.0	3.1
	80 and over	64.0	0.5	64.2	0.6	62.0	2.0	63.6	4.0
Health insurance, under age 65	Private	69.8	0.5	69.8	0.5	69.2	1.4	73.3	2.4
	Public only	65.4	0.3	65.6	0.3	63.8	1.0	65.2	2.2
	Uninsured/other	68.2	0.7	67.9	0.8	67.9	1.7	73.8	3.9
Health insurance, age 65 and over	Medicare only	64.4	0.8	65.1	0.8	61.7	2.1	56.4	4.9
Health insurance, age 65 and over	Medicare and supplement	65.2	0.4	65.3	0.4	63.3	1.4	66.4	3.0
Family income^a	Negative/poor	68.4	3.2	DSU	DSU	74.4	4.0	DSU	DSU
	Near poor/low	66.0	0.3	66.1	0.3	65.5	0.8	70.0	2.2
	Middle	69.5	0.5	69.6	0.6	68.6	2.1	68.8	2.5
	High	70.2	1.6	70.4	1.7	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Residence location	Metropolitan	67.9	0.3	67.9	0.3	66.9	0.8	69.4	1.6
	Large metropolitan, more than 1 million	68.5	0.4	69.0	0.4	66.5	0.9	67.2	1.9
	Small metropolitan, less than 1 million	66.8	0.4	66.4	0.5	68.0	1.5	76.9	3.0
	Micropolitan	60.1	0.9	60.5	0.9	53.8	3.3	DSU	DSU
	Noncore	66.1	1.0	66.2	1.0	66.2	3.8	DSU	DSU
	Noncore, adjacent	66.5	1.1	66.7	1.2	65.4	4.2	DSU	DSU
	Noncore, rural	64.7	2.0	64.6	2.0	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU

^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_5-2a: 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_5-2a.html