Table 1_4_2-3b

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_4_2.3b
Prostate cancer deaths per 100,000 male population,^a by ethnicity, United States, 2007
				Non-Hispanic
		Total		All races		White		Black		Hispanic, all races
Population group		Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE
Total		23.5	0.1	23.9	0.1	21.9	0.1	52.6	0.8	17.7	0.5
Age	0-17	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	18-44	0.0	0.0	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	45-64	7.2	0.1	7.5	0.1	6.4	0.2	18.0	0.7	4.8	0.4
	65 and over	165.1	1.0	168.4	1.1	156.9	1.1	341.2	5.3	116.6	3.3
Geographic location^b	Metropolitan	23.3	0.2	23.7	0.2	21.6	0.2	51.5	0.8	17.8	0.5
	Large central metro	23.9	0.3	24.6	0.3	21.2	0.3	51.5	1.1	18.7	0.7
	Large fringe metro	22.9	0.3	23.1	0.3	21.9	0.3	49.8	1.8	16.7	1.2
	Medium metro	23.4	0.3	23.8	0.3	22.0	0.3	55.2	2.0	16.8	1.1
	Small metro	22.4	0.4	22.6	0.4	21.2	0.4	48.2	2.7	16.9	1.9
	Micropolitan (nonmetropolitan)	24.1	0.4	24.3	0.4	22.6	0.4	59.1	2.8	17.0	1.9
	Noncore (nonmetropolitan)	24.7	0.5	24.9	0.5	23.0	0.5	60.5	3.3	15.3	2.5

^a Estimates are age adjusted to the 2000 standard population.� Age data are unadjusted. Respondents for which age is not reported are not included in the age adjustment calculations and are excluded from numerators.

^b For more information, see the National Vital Statistics System entry in Appendix A, Data Sources.

DSU - Data do not meet the criteria for statistical reliability, data quality, or confidentiality.

Key: SE: standard error.

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Vital Statistics System.

Current as of February 2011

Internet Citation: Table 1_4_2-3b: 2010 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. February 2011. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr10/1_cancer/T1_4_2-3b.html