Table 1_3_3-2b

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_3_3.2b
Adults age 50 and over who received a fecal occult blood test in the last 2 years,^a by ethnicity, United States, 2008
				Non-Hispanic						Hispanic, all races
		Total		All races		White		Black		Hispanic, all races
Population group		Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		14.7	0.5	14.9	0.5	15.2	0.5	13.6	1.1	11.4	1.2
Age	50-64	13.1	0.6	13.3	0.6	13.7	0.7	12.0	1.3	10.6	1.6
Age	65 and over	16.5	0.7	16.9	0.7	16.9	0.8	15.6	1.8	12.3	1.8
Gender	Female	14.3	0.6	14.5	0.6	14.8	0.7	13.6	1.4	11.6	1.6
Gender	Male	15.2	0.7	15.5	0.7	15.6	0.8	13.7	1.9	11.1	1.7
Health insurance,^b ages 50-64	Private	13.5	0.7	13.7	0.7	13.7	0.8	14.0	1.9	10.7	2.1
	Public only	17.1	1.6	16.8	1.7	19.7	2.3	9.8	2.4	19.8	4.7
	Uninsured	6.7	1.3	7.1	1.6	7.1	1.9	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Health insurance, age 65 and over	Medicare and private	17.6	1.0	17.6	1.0	17.1	1.0	17.5	3.5	18.0	4.1
	Medicare and public	15.9	1.7	16.8	1.9	18.2	2.3	14.9	3.5	11.2	3.3
	Medicare only	14.6	1.3	15.1	1.5	15.7	1.7	14.3	2.7	10.7	2.7
Family income^c	Negative/poor	10.6	1.1	11.0	1.3	12.5	1.8	9.9	2.2	8.8	2.1
	Near poor/low	13.1	1.0	13.9	1.1	13.7	1.3	16.5	2.7	8.6	2.0
	Middle	14.2	0.8	14.3	0.9	14.6	1.0	12.8	2.3	12.6	2.3
	High	16.9	0.9	16.9	0.9	16.8	0.9	14.8	2.6	15.7	2.9
Education	Less than high school	11.7	0.9	12.3	1.1	12.9	1.3	11.1	2.0	9.8	1.6
	High school graduate	12.7	0.7	12.9	0.7	13.2	0.8	9.6	1.5	9.9	2.4
	At least some college	17.2	0.7	17.2	0.7	17.1	0.8	19.1	2.2	15.4	2.4
Location of residence^d	Metropolitan	15.3	0.5	15.6	0.6	15.9	0.6	14.2	1.2	12.1	1.3
	Large central metro	15.6	0.9	16.2	1.0	17.9	1.3	12.4	1.6	12.4	1.7
	Large fringe metro	14.7	1.0	15.0	1.0	14.8	1.1	14.5	2.4	DSU	DSU
	Medium metro	16.1	1.0	16.2	1.1	16.1	1.1	17.4	3.3	15.2	3.1
	Small metro	14.1	1.4	14.5	1.6	14.8	1.7	13.0	3.4	DSU	DSU
	Micropolitan (nonmetropolitan)	13.5	1.5	13.7	1.5	13.7	1.6	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	Noncore (nonmetropolitan)	10.7	1.4	11.1	1.4	11.2	1.5	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Activity limitations^d	Basic activities	14.6	0.8	14.8	0.9	15.2	1.0	12.5	1.7	12.1	2.4
	Complex activities	14.6	1.1	15.2	1.2	16.0	1.4	11.3	2.2	DSU	DSU
	Neither basic nor complex activities	15.3	0.6	15.6	0.6	15.8	0.7	14.5	1.6	12.1	1.6

^a Estimates are age adjusted to the 2000 standard population.� Age data and health insurance data for age 65 and over are unadjusted.

^b A small number of people who were covered by both public and private health insurance plans were included in the "private" category only.��

^c Negative or poor refers to family incomes below the Federal poverty line for a given household size and composition; near poor/low, over 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.

^d For more information, see the National Health Interview Survey 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 Center for Health Statistics, National Health Interview Survey.

Page last reviewed October 2014

Internet Citation: Table 1_3_3-2b: 2010 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. October 2014. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://archive.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr10/1_cancer/T1_3_3-2b.html