Series 13, No. 153. National Hospital Discharge Survey: 2000 Annual Summary With Detailed Diagnosis and Procedure Data. 203 pp. (PHS) 2003-1724. 
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This report presents data from the 2000 National Hospital Discharge Survey (NHDS). The survey has been conducted continuously by the Centers for Disease Control's National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) since 1965. National estimates of hospital use derived from the NHDS are published for each calendar year by NCHS. This report provides a summary of the 2000 data, including estimates of diagnoses and procedures by International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) code number.

Data Highlights:
During 2000, an estimated 31.7 million inpatients were discharged from non-Federal short-stay hospitals. These patients used an estimated 155.9 million days of care.
In 2000, almost one-half of inpatients were discharged from hospitals with less than 200 beds, while about 10 percent were discharged from hospitals with 500 or more beds.
Heart disease was the most common diagnosis among inpatients 65 years of age and over, and childbirth delivery was the leading discharge diagnosis for patients 65 years of age and under.
Approximately 23.2 million surgical and 16.7 million nonsurgical procedures were performed on hospitalized patients.
In 2000, 38 percent of newborn infants had at least one illness or risk-related diagnosis.

Keywords: hospitalization, inpatient, surgical and nonsurgical procedures

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