National Hospital Discharge Survey (NHDS). Detailed Diagnoses, Procedures, Daysof Care, Diagnoses-Related Groups for Patients Discharge from Short-Stay Hospitals. Public Use Data Diskette Documentation

摘要

The documentation provides automated access to data on hospital utilization byage and sex of patient, geographic region of the United States, diagnosed conditions, and surgical and nonsurgical procedures performed. The data are from the National Center for Health Statistics' (NCHS') National Hospital Discharge Survey (NHDS), an annual survey designed to obtain information from medical records of sampled inpatients.