Utilization of short-stay hospitals summary of nonmedical statistics United States -1971

This report presents estimates on the utilization of non-Federal short-stay hospitals in the United States based on information collected in the Hospital Discharge Survey, a continuous nationwide survey conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics. Data were abstracted from about 200,000 hospital records of inpatients discharged from 379 hospitals that participated in the survey. Results of the survey permit generation of four basic types of reports: nonmedical, diagnostic, surgical, and patient charges. Reports are published in Series 13 of the Viiizl and Health Statistics reports and as selected supplements of Monthly Vital Statistics Reports. Estimates shown in this report are for patients in non-Federal short-stay hospitals, excluding newborn infants, discharged during 1971. Nonmedical data are presented on the number and rate of discharges and of days of care, and average length of stay for patients discharged, by age, sex, and color and by geographic region, bed size, and type of ownership (control) of hospitals.