Trends in Alcohol-Related Morbidity Among Short-Stay Community Hospital Discharges, United States, 1979-2007. Surveillance Report No. 89

摘要

This surveillance report, prepared by the Alcohol Epidemiologic Data System (AEDS), National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), presents data on alcohol-related morbidity in the United States from 1979 to 2007. AEDS compiles these statistics on alcohol-related inpatient stays based on a national sample of hospital discharge episodes from the National Hospital Discharge Survey (NHDS), conducted annually by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). Civilian population data estimated by the U.S. Census Bureau are used as the denominators to calculate rates.