Detailed Diagnoses and Procedures, National Hospital Discharge Survey, 1997

Series 13, No. 145. Detailed Diagnoses and Procedures, National Hospital Discharge Survey, 1997. 164 pp. (PHS) 2000-1716. GPO stock number and price forthcoming.
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A compilation of hospital utilization statistics for 1997 has been published by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). These comprehensive hospitalization data are presented by NCHS annually in the report, "Detailed Diagnoses and Procedures, National Hospital Discharge Survey."

The 1997 edition of the report presents statistics on diagnosed conditions and surgical and nonsurgical procedures performed in non-Federal short-stay hospitals. Data are shown by age and sex of the patient and by geographic region of the hospitals. The report is intended as a source document for researchers and others who need data for detailed diagnostic and procedure categories.

The data for this report are collected as part of NCHS's National Hospital Discharge Survey, which has been conducted annually since 1965. Approximately 474 hospitals participated in the 1997 survey. Statistics were derived from a sample of 300,000 medical records.

Keywords: inpatients, diagnoses, procedures, ICD-9-CM

This page last reviewed January 11, 2007