Hospital Care in the United States
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HCUP Facts and Figures: Statistics on Hospital-based Care in the United States, 2007The HCUP Facts and Figures Report were recently released to the public. There are always some great tidbits of information from these statistics. The importance of OB/GYN and NICU services are very pronounced in the latest HCUP statistics as:
- Conditions related to pregnancy and childbirth were the reason for more than one out of every five female hospitalizations in 2007.
- When combined with stays for newborn infants, these hospitalizations accounted for one-quarter of all stays.
If you think about 25% of inpatient stays being related to maternal care, this is more proof of the importance of marketing to women as the decision maker (not including the female role in health decisions for other family members).Where did the health care dollar go for inpatient stays in 2007? Circulatory disorders accounted for 22% ($74.6 billion), injury and poisoning for 11% ($37.2 billion) while hospital stays for childbirth, pregnancy and newborns cost $34.2 billion.In 1997, there was 128 discharges per 1,000 persons in the U.S. This increased to 131 discharges per 1,000 discharges in 2007. Here is where it gets interesting: inpatient utilization among 65+ persons actually decreased 3% (from 36% to 33%) from 1997 to 2007; utilization among the 45-64 age group actually increased 4% during this period. The rationale is that the number of persons in the 45-64 age group increased significantly from 1997 to 2007.HCUP Facts and Figures: Statistics on Hospital-based Care in the United States, 2007 presents information derived from the 2007 Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS), with trend information as far back as 1993. This report includes information from the 2007 database containing discharge records for all patients treated in a sample of approximately 1,000 hospitals. These discharges are weighted to represent all inpatient stays in community hospitals across the nation. Community hospitals include all non-Federal, short-term, acute care hospitals; psychiatric and substance abuse facilities and short-term rehabilitation hospitals are not included.
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December 7, 2009 pm31 7:31 am
If the rehabilitation hospitals are also taken into account, I think the statistics could show a very wide variation. The report was even more informative and interesting.
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