Rural residents who are hospitalized in rural and urban hospitals: United States, 2010.

In 2010, 17% of the U.S. population lived in rural (nonmetropolitan) areas.

National hospital discharge survey: 2006 annual summary.

Objectives-This report presents 2006 national estimates and selected trend data on the use of nonfederal short-stay hospitals in the United States. Estimates are provided by selected patient and hospital characteristics, diagnoses, and surgical and nonsurgical procedures performed. Estimates of diagnoses and procedures are presented according to the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification codes.

Use and in-hospital mortality associated with two cardiac procedures, by sex and age: national trends, 1990-2004.

This study used data from the National Hospital Discharge Survey to examine sex- and age-specific trends in use and in-hospital mortality associated with coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) and percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) among adults age forty-five and older during 1990-2004. Although use rates for PCI increased 58 percent over the study period, CABG use rates declined. In-hospital death rates declined or stayed the same even though comorbidities increased for patients who received the procedures.

Inpatient care in rural hospitals at the beginning of the 21st century.

Context: National data documenting the role that rural hospitals play in providing inpatient care to patients both younger than 65 and 65 years and older has previously been unavailable.

Purpose: To present descriptive nationally representative data on the numbers and types of inpatients, and the care they received, in rural hospitals.

Methods: This study includes inpatient data from the 2001 National Hospital Discharge Survey, a nationally representative survey of short-stay, nonfederal hospitals in the United States.

Gastric bypass as treatment for obesity: trends, characteristics, and complications.

Objective: This paper describes national trends in gastric bypass procedures from 1998 through 2003 and explores the demographic and health profile of those who receive this procedure. Short-term outcomes such as length of stay and in-hospital complication rates are also examined.

Research Methods And Procedures: Data on obese hospital inpatients who had gastric bypass were obtained from the 1998 to 2003 National Hospital Discharge Survey.

Infectious disease hospitalizations among older adults in the United States from 1990 through 2002.

Background: To understand conditions associated with substantial morbidity among older adults (aged > or = 65 years), we describe hospitalization rates and trends for overall infectious disease (ID) and for specific ID groups among older adults in the United States from January 1, 1990, through December 31, 2002.

Methods: The National Hospital Discharge Survey was used to generate hospitalization estimates from 1990 through 2002 for the US population of older adults. By using a comprehensive list of International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification codes associated with IDs, we identified and analyzed hospitalizations associated with specific ID and ID-related categories.

National Hospital Discharge Survey: 2002 annual summary with detailed diagnosis and procedure data.

Objectives: This report presents 2002 national estimates and selected trend data on the use of non-Federal short-stay hospitals in the United States. Estimates are provided by selected patient and hospital characteristics, diagnoses, and surgical and nonsurgical procedures performed. Estimates of diagnoses and procedures are presented according to International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) codes.

National Hospital Discharge Survey: 2001 annual summary with detailed diagnosis and procedure data.

Objectives: This report presents 2001 national estimates and selected trend data on the use of non-Federal short-stay hospitals in the United States. Estimates are provided by selected patient and hospital characteristics, diagnoses, and surgical and nonsurgical procedures performed. Admission source and type, collected for the first time in the 2001 National Hospital Discharge Survey, are shown.

2000 National Hospital Discharge Survey.

Unlabelled: OBJECTIVES; This report presents national estimates of the use of non-Federal short-stay hospitals in the United States during 2000. Numbers and rates of discharges, diagnoses, and procedures are shown by age and sex. Discharges are also shown by geographic region of hospital.

National Hospital Discharge Survey: 2000 annual summary with detailed diagnosis and procedure data.

Objectives: This report presents national estimates for 2000 and selected trend data on the use of non-Federal short-stay hospitals in the United States. Estimates are provided by demographic characteristics of patients discharged, geographic region, ownership and bed size of hospitals, principal expected source of payment, conditions diagnosed, and surgical and nonsurgical procedures performed.

Methods: The estimates are based on data collected through the National Hospital Discharge Survey.