Principal Diagnoses |
Number of Discharges in Thousands) |
Percent of All Hospital Stays for Condition that Are Uninsured |
1. Infants born in the hospital |
191 |
5.0 |
2. Pneumonia |
51 |
4.0 |
3. Alcohol-related mental disorders |
47 |
19.3 |
4. Depression (affective disorders) |
45 |
7.6 |
5. Substance-related mental disorders |
43 |
22.5 |
6. Hardening of the arteries of the heart (coronary atherosclerosis) |
41 |
2.8 |
7. Nonspecific chest pain |
40 |
7.3 |
8. Asthma |
34 |
7.9 |
9. Diabetes mellitus with complications |
31 |
7.5 |
10. Trauma to perineum due to childbirth |
30 |
4.1 |
Source: Hospitalization in the United States, 1997 (HCUP Fact Book No. 1), AHRQ Publication No. 00-0031, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2000.
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