Hospital Utilization
(in non-Federal short-stay hospitals)
(Data are for the U.S.)
Hospital inpatient care
- Number of discharges: 36.1 million
- Discharges per 10,000 population: 1,181.2
- Average length of stay in days: 4.9
- Number of procedures performed: 48.0 million
- Percent of persons with overnight hospital stays: 7.9%
Hospital outpatient department care
- Number of outpatient department visits: 96.1 million
- Outpatient visits per 100 persons: 31.9
Hospital emergency department care
- Number of emergency department visits: 136.1 million
- Emergency department visits per 100 persons: 45.1
- Number of emergency department visits resulting in hospital admission: 17.1 million
- Number of emergency department visits resulting in admission to critical care unit: 2.2 million
More Data
- Average length of stay in nonfederal short-stay hospitals, by sex, age, and selected first-listed diagnosis Health, United States, 2011, table 106 [PDF - 9.8 MB]
- Discharges, days of care, and average length of stay in nonfederal short-stay hospitals, by selected characteristics Health, United States, 2011, table 103 [PDF - 9.8 MB]
- Discharges in nonfederal short-stay hospitals, by sex, age, and selected first-listed diagnosis Health, United States, 2011, table 104 [PDF - 9.8 MB]
- Discharge rate in nonfederal short-stay hospitals, by sex, age, and selected first-listed diagnosis Health, United States, 2011, table 105 [PDF - 9.8 MB]
- Initial injury-related visits to hospital emergency departments, by sex, age, and intent and mechanism of injury, Health, United States, 2011, table 95
- Persons with hospital stays in the past year, by selected characteristics Health, United States, 2011, table 102 [PDF - 9.8 MB]
- Search Tables for Hospital Utilization in Health Data Interactive
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