National hospital discharge survey; annual summary, 1993

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• Personal Author:
  Graves, Edmund
• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.)
• Description:
  This report presents statistics on the utilization of non-Federal short-stay hospitals based on data collected through the National Hospital Discharge Survey from a national sample of the hospital records of discharged inpatients. Estimates are provided by the demographic characteristics of patients discharged, geographic region of hospitals, conditions diagnosed, and surgical and nonsurgical procedures performed. Measurements of hospital use include frequency, rate and percent of discharges and days of care, and average length of stay.
• Content Notes:
  Includes bibliographical references (p. 18).
• Subjects:
  Hospitals Hospital Utilization Patient Discharge Utilization
• Source:
  Vital and Health Statistics. Series 13, Data from the National Health Survey ; no. 121 ; DHHS publication ; no. (PHS) 95-1782
• Series:
  Vital and Health Statistics Series
• Document Type:
  Journal Issue
• Genre:
  Statistics
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  print; iv, 63 p. ; 28 cm.
• Issue:
  121
• Collection(s):
  National Center for Health Statistics
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:43b8801cc617e06850e0cb7621721d9edfe27435371096d9cc4620b50a76179c829b3b9d0830b2d618d3ae0db62a55359ff1bad267e106d89a25770f539eda08
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/6602/cdc_6602_DS1.pdf
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