CDC's National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) has released an update of statistics on in-patient hospital use during 1990. NCHS's National Hospital Discharge Survey, a continuous survey conducted since 1965, abstracts data from approximately 266,000 medical records from 474 short-stay, nonfederal U.S. hospitals. The number, rate, and average length of stay of patients discharged are shown by age, geographic region, and sex. Use by diagnosis and surgical procedures is also included.
Copies of the report, 1990 Summary: National Hospital
Discharge Survey (1), are available free of charge from the
Scientific and Technical Information Branch, Division of Data
Services, NCHS, CDC, Room 1064, 6525 Belcrest Road, Hyattsville, MD
20782; telephone (301) 436-8500.
Reference
NCHS. 1990 Summary: National Hospital Discharge Survey. Hyattsville, Maryland: US Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, CDC, 1992. (Advance data no. 210).
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