1982 Summary: National Hospital Discharge Survey

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• Personal Author:
  Haupt, B.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Health Statistic (U.S.)
• Description:
  During 1982 an estimated 38.6 million inpatients, excluding newborn infants, were discharged from short-stay non- Federal hospitals in the United States. These patients were hospitalized an average of 7.1 days and used 272.6 million days of inpatient hospital care. Patients hospitalized during 82 accounted for 168 discharges and 1,186 days of care per 1,000 civilian population. ; These and other statistics presented in this report are based ; on data collected by means of the National Hospital Discharge Survey, a continuous survey that has been conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics since 1965. In 1982, data were abstracted from the face sheets of medical records of approximately 214,000 patients discharged from 426 short-stay non-Federal hospitals. A brief description of the sample design, data collection procedures, and estimation process, and definitions of terms used in this report can be found in the section entitled “Technical notes.” A detailed discussion of these items, as well as the survey form used to collect the data, have been published. ; Suggested citation: National Center for Health Statistics, B. Haupt: 1982 Summary: National Hospital Discharge Survey. Advance Data From Vital and Hearth Statistics, No. 95. DHHS pub. No. (PHS) 84–1250. Public Health Service, Hyattsville, Md. Dec. 27, 1983. ; PMID: 10264929 ; ad095acc.pdf
• Content Notes:
  Advance data from vital and health statistics of the National Center for Health Statistics ; no. 95 ; DHEW publication ; no. (PHS) 84-1250
• Subjects:
  • Disease/classification
  • Hospitals
  • Patient Discharge
• 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:
  95
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/88960/cdc_88960_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.71 MB]
• Collection(s):
  National Center for Health Statistics
• Main Document Checksum:
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