Table 1_2_2-1

2008 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_2_2.1
Cervical cancer diagnosed at advanced stage (all invasive tumors) per 100,000 women age 20 and over,^a United States, 2000 and 2005
Population group		2005		2000
Population group		Rate	SE	Rate	SE
Total		11.2	0.2	13.3	0.2
Age, not age adjusted	20–44	9.3	0.3	10.9	0.3
	45–64	13.2	0.4	16.1	0.4
	65 and over	12.8	0.5	14.9	0.6
Race	White	11.0	0.2	13.1	0.2
	Black	12.8	0.7	17.3	0.8
	American Indian/Alaska Native	8.5	1.7	7.6	1.8
	Asian/Pacific Islander	10.8	0.6	11.4	0.7
Ethnicity	Hispanic, all races	17.7	0.7	23.0	0.8
	Non-Hispanic, all races	10.0	0.2	11.8	0.2
	Non-Hispanic, White	9.5	0.2	11.2	0.3
	Non-Hispanic, Black	12.8	0.7	17.3	0.8

^a Data are SEER 2000–2005 Limited-use database, 17 registries, released in November, 2007. The 2005 data were adjusted for areas impacted by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Estimates in this table are age adjusted to the 2000 U.S. standard million population by 5-year age groups, except where indicated.

Key: SE: standard error.

Source: National Cancer Institute, Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program.

Current as of September 2009

Internet Citation: Table 1_2_2-1: 2008 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. September 2009. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://archive.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr08/1_cancer/T1_2_2-1.html