Expected Principal Source of Payment for Hospital Discharges: United States, 1979

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• Personal Author:
  Graves, E. ; Pokras, R.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Health Statistic (U.S.)
• 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. ; PMID: 10254680 ; ad075acc.pdf
• Content Notes:
  Advance data from vital and health statistics of the National Center for Health Statistics ; no. 75 ; DHEW publication ; no. (PHS) 81-1250
• Subjects:
  • Age Factors
  • Data Collection
  • Financing, Government
  • Financing, Personal
  • Insurance, Hospitalization
  • Patient Discharge/economics
  • Sex Factors
  • Statistics as Topic
• Source:
  National Hospital Discharge Survey
• Series:
  NCHS Advance Data
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Report ; Statistics
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• CIO:
  National Center for Health Statistics
• Topic:
  Health Statistics
• Location:
  North America
• Issue:
  75
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/84339/cdc_84339_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.20 MB]
• Collection(s):
  National Center for Health Statistics
• Main Document Checksum:
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