2000 National Hospital Discharge Survey Advance Data
329. 2000
National
Hospital Discharge Survey. 19 pp. (PHS)
2002-1250. In 2000, there were an estimated 31.7 million discharges of inpatients, excluding newborn infants from short-stay non-Federal hospitals in the United States. The discharge rate was 1,140.0 per 10,000 population and the average length of stay was 4.9 days. This information, along with other inpatient data by diagnosis, procedure, sex, age, and geographic region, is presented in the National Center for Health Statistics' (NCHS) report, "2000 National Hospital Discharge Survey: Annual Summary." The statistics presented in this report are based on medical abstract data collected through the National Hospital Discharge Survey for 2000. The survey has been conducted annually by NCHS since 1965. Diagnosis and procedures presented are coded according to the International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM). Data Highlights: In the most recent decade, from 1990 to 2000, the discharge rate among persons 65 years of age and over increased 8 percent. During this period, the rate among the 15-44-year-old age group decreased by 18 percent and the discharge rate among persons 45-64 years of age decreased by 16 percent. Persons 65 years of age and over accounted for 39.1 percent of all discharges. Six diagnostic categories each accounted for more than a million discharges. These were heart disease (4.4 million), delivery (3.7 million), pneumonia (1.3 million), malignant neoplasms (1.2 million), psychoses (1.4 million), and fractures (1.0 million). During 2000, 40 million procedures were performed on hospital inpatients. Approximately three-fourths of all procedures were in four ICD-9-CM chapters: miscellaneous diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, obstetrical procedures, operations on the cardiovascular system, and operations on the digestive system. Keywords: inpatients, diagnoses, procedures, ICD-9-CM
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