The National Hospital Discharge Survey (NHDS), which has been conducted annually since 1965, is a national probability survey designed to meet the need for information on characteristics of inpatients discharged from non-Federal short-stay hospitals in the United States. Data from the NHDS are available annually and are used to examine important topics of interest in public health and for a variety of activities by governmental, scientific, academic, and commercial institutions.
A separate web page has been created for the National Survey of Ambulatory Surgery (NSAS). The new web address for NSAS is http://www.cdc.gov/nsas.htm
Contact Us:
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Hospital Care Team
Ambulatory and Hospital Care Statistics Branch
National Center for Health Statistics
3311 Toledo Road
Hyattsville, MD 20782 - (301) 458-4321
- nhds@cdc.gov