Table 1_4_3-3b

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_3.3b
Cancer deaths per 100,000 population per year for lung cancer,^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		50.6	0.1	53.0	0.1	53.9	0.1	56.8	0.5	20.9	0.3
Age	0-17	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	18-44	1.8	0.0	2.0	0.0	2.1	0.1	2.0	0.1	0.6	0.1
	45-64	57.1	0.3	61.3	0.3	61.6	0.3	75.7	1.0	16.9	0.5
	65 and over	298.4	0.9	310.1	0.9	317.9	1.0	305.0	3.1	129.2	2.3
Gender	Female	40.0	0.2	42.0	0.2	43.5	0.2	39.0	0.5	14.4	0.3
Gender	Male	65.1	0.2	67.8	0.2	67.7	0.3	84.0	0.9	29.6	0.6
Geographic location^b	Metropolitan	48.8	0.1	51.4	0.1	52.2	0.2	56.1	0.5	20.7	0.3
	Large central metro	44.8	0.2	48.7	0.3	48.9	0.3	58.2	0.7	20.8	0.4
	Large fringe metro	49.7	0.3	51.3	0.3	52.6	0.3	49.7	1.0	17.9	0.7
	Medium metro	51.0	0.3	53.0	0.3	53.5	0.3	57.6	1.1	22.1	0.8
	Small metro	53.8	0.4	55.3	0.4	55.5	0.5	58.5	1.7	22.6	1.4
	Micropolitan (nonmetropolitan)	57.9	0.4	59.1	0.4	59.6	0.4	60.8	1.7	22.2	1.4
	Noncore (nonmetropolitan)	59.7	0.5	60.5	0.5	60.5	0.5	64.7	2.1	26.4	2.2

^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_3-3b: 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_3-3b.html