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**NationalHospital Discharge Survey: Annual Summary, 1998**

**Series 13,    No. 148**. National Hospital Discharge Survey: Annual Summary, 1998.203 pp. (PHS) 2000-1719. GPO stock number and price forthcoming.**View/download PDF** 970KB

An estimated 31.8      million patients, excluding newborn infants, were discharged from      short-stay non-Federal hospitals in the United States in 1998. This and      other inpatient data are presented in a new report from the National      Center for Health Statistics (NCHS).

Inpatients in 1998 used      160.9 million days of hospital care. The average length of stay was 5.1      days and the discharge rate was 116.5 per 1,000 civilian population. These      statistics, along with other inpatient data by diagnoses, procedures, sex,      age, and geographic region, are presented in the NCHS report      "National Hospital Discharge Survey: Annual Summary, 1998."

**Data Highlights:**Deliveries and          heart disease combined accounted for 8.3 million discharges and made          up 26 percent of all first-listed diagnoses.Heart disease was          the first listed diagnosis for 23 percent of discharges for patients          65 years and over.At least one          procedure was reported for 63 percent of discharges.The average length          of stay for childbirth increased to 2.5 days in 1998, from 2.4 days in          1997.In 1998, three          surgical procedures performed 1 million times or more were episiotomy,          cardiac catheterization, and repair of current obstetric laceration.In 1998, three          nonsurgical procedures performed 1 million times or more were          arteriography and angiocardiography using contrast material,          diagnostic ultrasound, and respiratory therapy.

**Keywords:** hospitalization,      inpatient, diagnoses, procedures

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