Table 1_4_3-2b

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_4_3.2b
Lung cancer deaths per 100,000 population per year,^a by ethnicity, United States, 2005
Population group		Total		Non-Hispanic						Hispanic, all races
		Total		All races		White		Black		Hispanic, all races
		Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE
Age, not age adjusted	0–17	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	45–64	60.4	0.3	64.5	0.3	64.5	0.3	81.4	1.0	18.9	0.5
	65 and over	306.7	0.9	317.5	1.0	325.1	1.0	313.7	3.2	136.0	2.4
Gender	Male	69.0	0.2	71.6	0.2	71.4	0.3	88.1	0.9	33.3	0.7
Gender	Female	40.5	0.2	42.5	0.2	43.7	0.2	40.9	0.5	14.4	0.4
Residence location^b	Metropolitan	51.1	0.1	53.6	0.2	54.4	0.2	59.3	0.5	22.2	0.4
	Large central metro	47.4	0.2	51.3	0.3	51.5	0.3	61.1	0.7	21.7	0.5
	Large fringe metro	50.7	0.3	52.1	0.3	53.4	0.3	51.1	1.0	20.8	0.9
	Medium metro	53.9	0.3	55.9	0.3	56.5	0.3	60.5	1.2	24.4	0.8
	Small metro	57.2	0.4	58.6	0.5	58.3	0.5	67.4	1.9	24.8	1.5
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	58.6	0.4	59.7	0.4	60.1	0.4	61.0	1.7	24.6	1.6
	Noncore (nonmetro)	59.2	0.5	59.9	0.5	59.8	0.5	65.0	2.1	25.7	2.3

^a Estimates are age adjusted to the 2000 standard population, except where indicated. Respondents for which age is not reported are not included in the age adjustment calculations and are excluded from displayed numerators.

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

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

Key: SE: standard error.

Current as of September 2009

Internet Citation: Table 1_4_3-2b: 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_4_3-2b.html