National Hospital Discharge Survey, Annual Summary, 1997 Series
13, No. 144. National Hospital
Discharge Survey: Annual Summary, 1997. 52 pp. (PHS) 2000-1715. GPO stock number and price forthcoming. An estimate of 30.9 million patients, excluding newborn infants, were discharged from short-stay non-Federal hospitals in the United States in 1997. This and other inpatient data are presented in a new report from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). Inpatients in 1997 used 157.5 million days of hospital care. The average length of stay was 5.1 days and the discharge rate was 114.3 per 1,000 civilian population. These statistics, along with other inpatient data by diagnoses, procedures, sex, age, and geographic region, are presented in the NCHS report "National Hospital Discharge Survey: Annual Summary, 1997." Highlights Include: Keywords: hospitalization, inpatient, diagnoses, procedures
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