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Advance
Data From Vital and Health Statistics |
National Hospital Discharge Survey: 1998 Summary
Advance Data 316. National Hospital Discharge Survey: 1998 Summary. 17 pp. (PHS) 2000-1250.
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In 1998, there were an estimated 31.8 million discharges of inpatients, excluding newborn infants, from short-stay non-Federal hospitals in the United States. The discharge rate was 1,165.3 per 10,000 population, and the average length of stay was 5.1 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, "National Hospital Discharge Survey: Annual Summary, 1998."
The statistics presented in this report are based on medical abstract data collected through the National Hospital Discharge Survey for 1998. 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:
The discharge rate per 10,000 population was
934.7 for males and 1,385.3 for females. Males had an average length of stay of 5.5 days
compared with 4.7 days for females.
Persons 65 years of age and over accounted for
39 percent of all discharges.
Six diagnostic categories each accounted for
more than a million discharges. These were heart disease (4.3 million), delivery (4.0
million), malignant neoplasms (1.3 million), pneumonia (1.3 million), psychoses (1.3
million), and cerebrovascular disease (1.0 million).
During 1998, 41.5 million procedures were
performed on hospital inpatients.
Keywords: Inpatients, Diagnosis, Procedures, ICD-9-CM
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