Table 1_3_5-2c

2010 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_5.2c
Patients with colon cancer who received recommended treatment: resected colon specimen had at least 12 regional lymph nodes pathologically examined, by family income,^a United States, 2007
		Total		Negative/poor		Near poor/low		Middle		High
Population group		Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		77.0	0.2	78.7	2.7	76.1	0.3	79.7	0.5	79.2	1.4
Anatomic location	Right	83.9	0.3	87.9	3.2	83.4	0.3	85.5	0.6	84.1	1.8
	Transverse	72.6	0.8	DSU	DSU	71.6	0.9	75.6	1.5	76.8	4.7
	Sigmoid	68.6	0.4	67.4	5.0	67.2	0.5	72.6	0.8	71.5	2.7
Age	Under age 40	90.5	1.1	DSU	DSU	91.0	1.3	89.0	2.6	92.3	7.4
	40-49	84.0	0.8	DSU	DSU	82.2	1.0	89.0	1.4	77.8	5.7
	50-59	78.4	0.5	76.0	6.0	77.4	0.7	81.3	1.1	86.4	2.8
	60-69	76.5	0.5	85.1	5.2	75.7	0.6	79.1	1.0	76.1	3.1
	70-79	75.4	0.4	81.4	5.1	74.4	0.5	79.1	0.9	79.3	2.9
	80 and over	75.4	0.5	73.7	7.1	74.9	0.6	77.1	1.0	76.3	3.1
Health insurance, under age 65	Private	78.9	0.4	85.7	5.4	77.8	0.5	80.4	0.8	81.9	2.2
	Public only	75.8	0.3	77.1	3.4	75.1	0.3	78.9	0.6	77.0	2.0
	Uninsured/other	78.8	0.6	76.7	7.7	77.9	0.8	82.3	1.4	82.8	5.0
Health insurance, age 65 and over	Medicare only	75.0	0.7	71.1	7.4	73.9	0.9	78.8	1.6	73.2	5.9
Health insurance, age 65 and over	Medicare and supplement	76.0	0.3	78.6	4.9	75.1	0.4	79.0	0.7	77.6	2.2
Location of patient residence	Metropolitan^b	77.8	0.3	81.5	3.0	76.8	0.3	80.0	0.5	79.0	1.5
	Large metropolitan	78.1	0.3	85.0	3.6	77.0	0.4	79.7	0.5	78.7	1.6
	Small metropolitan	77.2	0.4	76.7	5.0	76.5	0.4	81.3	1.0	81.5	4.1
	Micropolitan	73.1	0.8	DSU	DSU	73.4	0.8	69.1	5.0	DSU	DSU
	Noncore	74.1	0.9	64.1	7.7	74.4	0.9	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	Noncore, adjacent	74.4	1.0	DSU	DSU	74.7	1.0	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	Noncore, rural	73.0	1.9	DSU	DSU	73.2	1.9	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.

^b Large metropolitan includes areas with a population of one million or more; small metropolitan includes areas with a population less than one million.

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.

Page last reviewed October 2014

Internet Citation: Table 1_3_5-2c: 2010 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. October 2014. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://archive.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr10/1_cancer/T1_3_5-2c.html