Table 1_3_5_2a

2011 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_5.2a
Patients with colon cancer who received recommended treatment: resected colon specimen had at least 12 regional lymph nodes pathologically examined, by race, 2008
		Total		White		Black		Asian
Population group		Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		81.2	0.2	81.4	0.2	80.0	0.6	81.6	1.3
Anatomic location	Right	87.0	0.3	87.0	0.3	87.0	0.7	89.1	1.7
	Transverse	77.9	0.7	78.1	0.8	76.9	2.1	76.0	4.8
	Sigmoid	74.3	0.4	74.5	0.4	71.6	1.1	77.2	1.9
Age	Under age 40	92.1	1.0	92.3	1.1	89.8	2.8	DSU	DSU
	40-49	87.4	0.7	86.8	0.8	88.0	1.6	91.8	3.0
	50-59	81.7	0.5	82.0	0.6	79.3	1.2	89.5	2.2
	60-69	81.1	0.4	81.1	0.5	81.5	1.1	77.4	2.8
	70-79	80.5	0.4	81.0	0.4	76.3	1.4	77.4	2.8
	80 and over	79.4	0.5	79.7	0.5	76.6	1.8	73.7	3.6
Health insurance, under age 65	Private	83.6	0.4	83.4	0.4	84.6	1.0	84.8	2.0
	Public only	80.3	0.3	80.6	0.3	77.9	0.8	79.2	1.8
	Uninsured/other	80.9	0.6	81.1	0.7	78.7	1.6	82.8	3.4
Health insurance, age 65 and over	Medicare only	81.4	0.7	81.6	0.7	81.9	1.8	69.2	4.8
Health insurance, age 65 and over	Medicare and supplement	80.1	0.3	80.5	0.3	76.2	1.2	80.6	2.3
Family income^a	Negative/poor	84.6	2.5	87.1	3.5	82.7	3.6	DSU	DSU
	Near poor/low	80.6	0.3	80.8	0.3	79.4	0.7	82.8	1.8
	Middle	83.2	0.4	83.2	0.4	83.9	1.6	79.5	2.2
	High	84.1	1.3	83.8	1.4	87.8	5.1	85.4	5.1
Location of patient residence^b	Metropolitan	81.7	0.2	81.8	0.3	80.8	0.6	81.8	1.3
	Large metropolitan	82.3	0.3	82.4	0.3	81.5	0.8	81.2	1.5
	Small metropolitan	80.9	0.4	81.0	0.4	79.1	1.2	83.9	2.6
	Micropolitan	77.8	0.7	78.5	0.8	70.8	3.0	DSU	DSU
	Noncore	80.4	0.8	80.9	0.8	74.4	3.3	DSU	DSU
	Noncore, adjacent	80.4	0.9	80.7	0.9	76.4	3.5	DSU	DSU
	Noncore, rural	80.7	1.7	81.9	1.8	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.� Family income is based on median ZIP Code income as of Census 2000.

^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_2a: 2011 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. October 2014. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://archive.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr11/1_cancer/T1_3_5_2a.html