Objectives: This report presents national estimates of the use of non-Federal short-stay hospitals in the United States during 1994. Estimates are provided by demographic characteristics of patients discharged, geographic region of hospitals, conditions diagnosed, and surgical and nonsurgical procedures performed. Measurements of hospital use include number and rate of discharges and days of care, and the average length of stay.
Methods: The estimates are based on data collected through the National Hospital Discharge Survey for 1994. The survey has been conducted annually by the National Center for Health Statistics since 1965. In the 1994, data were collected for approximately 277,000 discharges. Of the 512 eligible non-Federal short-stay hospitals, 478 (93 percent) responded to the survey. Diagnoses and procedures are presented according to their code number in the International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision, Clinical Modification, or ICD-9-CM.
Results: In 1994 there were an estimated 30.8 million discharges from non-Federal short-stay hospitals. These patients used a total of 177.2 million days of care and had an average length of stay of 5.7 days. Other data summarized in this report include estimates for diagnoses, procedures, expected source of payment, hospital deaths, and newborn infants.
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J Gen Intern Med
February 2024
Department of Psychiatry, Beitou Branch, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan.
Background: Despite initiatives to eradicate racial inequalities in pain treatment, there is no clear picture on whether this has translated to changes in clinical practice.
Objective: To determine whether racial disparities in the receipt of pain medication in the emergency department have diminished over a 22-year period from 1999 to 2020.
Design: We used data from the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, an annual, cross-sectional probability sample of visits to emergency departments of non-federal general and short-stay hospitals in the USA.
Scand J Gastroenterol
November 2017
a Department of Internal Medicine, Divisions of Gastroenterology and Hepatology , Mayo Clinic, Rochester , MN , USA.
Objectives: Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) may worsen outcomes in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), but large database-driven studies have conflicting results. The study objective is to analyze clinical features and outcomes in patients with CDI and IBD using the National Hospital Discharge Survey (NHDS) database from 2005 to 2009.
Materials And Methods: NHDS collects the clinical information on patients dismissed from non-Federal short-stay United States hospitals.
Disasters
April 2012
Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies, University of Sydney, Australia.
Coordination theory provides a theoretical framework for analysing complex processes of project groups working towards a common goal. In this study, we explore the relationship between coordination and social networks for the development of a network-based coordination model. This model is applied to measure the performance and quality of complex and dynamic project coordination such as in hospital emergency departments.
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March 2011
Department of Emergency Medicine, Washington Hospital Center/Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC 20010, USA.
Objective: Infection with the HIV has developed into a chronic illness, with longer-term complications increasingly being seen. There is increasing evidence that infection with HIV may be associated with a hypercoagulable state. This study examines the association of HIV infection with the incidence of both pulmonary embolism and deep venous thrombosis.
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July 2010
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Laboratory Services, Public Health Surveillance Program Office, USA.
Objective: To describe the primary reason for visits to hospital emergency departments (EDs) by patients whose expected source of payment was Medicaid/State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). The primary reason for an ED visit is particularly important because it reflects the patients' perspective of the problem that necessitated a visit to the ED.
Study Design: Retrospective study.
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