National hospital discharge survey, 1991
By: principal investigator, United States Department of Health and Human Services, National Center for Health Statistics.
Contributors: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.; National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.); National Hospital Discharge Survey (U.S.)
Edition: 1st ICPSR release.
Series: ICPSR -- 6156.; ICPSR (Series) -- 6156.
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: eng; und
Number of pages: 54
Subjects: Hospitals -- United States -- Admission and discharge; Hospital utilization -- United States -- Length of stay; Hospital patients -- United States
Description: The 1988 National Hospital Discharge Survey (NHDS), which is part of a continuing sample of hospital discharge records, provides medical and demographic information used to calculate statistics on hospital utilization. This survey consists of data abstracted from a national sample of nonfederal short-stay hospitals. The variables include information on the patient's demographic characteristics, dates of admission and discharge, status at discharge, diagnoses, procedures performed, and source of payment. Information on hospital characteristics, such as bedsize, ownership, and region of the country, also is included.
Notes: Codebook.

"October 1993."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 15).