Hospitalizations Due to Injury: Inpatient Medical Records Data

摘要

This paper summarizes hospitalization rates and trends, injury hospitalizations relative to other diagnoses, and injury hospitalizations by external cause of injury. Hospitalization rates in the Army increased 8% between 1981 and 1994, to a rate of 153/1,000 personnel/year. For the years 1989-1994, both the Navy and Marine Corps saw declines in hospitalization rates; the Navy rate declined 24% to 71/1,000 personnel/year, whereas the Marine Corps rate fell 27% to 61/1,000 personnel/year. Between 1980 and 1994, the Air Force hospitalization rate declined 35% to 100/1,000 personnel/year. Musculoskeletal conditions, which are frequently the result of injuries, were the leading cause of hospitalizations in the Army (18%), Navy (22%), and Marine Corps (28%) in 1994. Digestive conditions constituted the largest proportion of hospitalizations in the Air Force in 1994; however, musculoskeletal conditions and injury together accounted for 22% of hospitalizations that year.