Expected principal source of payment for hospital discharges : United States, 1979

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• Personal Author:
  Graves, Edmund ; Pokras, Robert
• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.). Division of Health Care Statistics.
• Description:
  This report presents statistics on data collected through the National Hospital Discharge Survey. The National Center for Health Statistics has continuously conducted this survey since 1965. In 1979 data were abstracted from the face sheets of medical records of approximately 215,000 patients discharged from 416 non-Federal short-stay hospitals. These data were used to produce estimates of hospital utilization by an estimated 36.7 million inpatients (excluding newborn infants) in the United States.
  
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• Subjects:
  Age Factors Data Collection Financing, Government Financing, Personal Insurance, Hospitalization Patient Discharge/economics Sex Factors Statistics As Topic
• Source:
  Advance data from vital and health statistics of the National Center for Health Statistics ; no. 75 ; DHEW publication ; no. (PHS) 81-1250
• Series:
  Advance Data
• Document Type:
  Journal Issue
• Name as Subject:
  National Hospital Discharge Survey (U.S.) ; National Hospital Discharge Survey (U.S.)
• Genre:
  Statistics
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  11 Pages
• Issue:
  75
• Collection(s):
  National Center for Health Statistics
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/84339/cdc_84339_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.20 MB ]