New NCHS Reference Publication on Hospital Care
The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) released a new report, “National Hospital Discharge Survey: 2005 Annual Summary with Detailed Diagnosis and Procedure Data,” that presents 2005 national estimates and selected trend data on the use of nonfederal short-stay hospitals in the United States. Estimates are provided by selected patient and hospital characteristics, diagnoses and surgical and nonsurgical procedures performed. This reference publication targets researchers, policymakers, and others who require the latest tabulations of detailed diagnoses and procedures presented according to International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) codes.
Report highlights include the following:
- Roughly 35 million discharges occurred in 2005, with an average length of stay of 4.8 days, and accounting for 166 million days of care
- Persons 65 years and over accounted for 38 percent of the hospital discharges and 44 percent of the days of care
- Hospitalization for malignant neoplasms decreased from 1990-2005
- Thirty-eight percent of hospital discharges had no procedures performed while 12 percent had four or more procedures performed
- Episiotomy during vaginal delivery has declined precipitously from 64 percent of vaginal deliveries in 1980 to 19 percent in 2005
For a copy of the full report e-mail: CDefrances@cdc.gov.
The data upon which this report is based are available to the public. Public use data files for the years 1999-2005 may be downloaded at:
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/about/major/hdasd/nhds.htm#(micro-data)
The National Hospital Discharge Survey is one of a family of provider-based surveys known collectively as the National Health Care Surveys. For more information about ambulatory, hospital, or long-term care surveys, please visit www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhcs.htm.
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