HCUP Facts and Figures: Statistics on Hospital-based Care in the United States, 2009 presents information from the 2009 Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS), with trend information as far back as 1993. The NIS consists of discharge records for all inpatients treated in a sample of approximately 1,000 hospitals. These discharges are weighted to represent all inpatient stays in community hospitals across the nation, so this report presents national estimates for the U.S.

Community hospitals include all non-Federal, short-term, acute care hospitals. This excludes psychiatric and substance abuse facilities, short-term rehabilitation hospitals, and Federal hospitals (Department of Defense, Department of Veterans Affairs, and Indian Health Service).

Contents

• HIGHLIGHTS
• INTRODUCTION
• HCUP AND ITS DATA PARTNERS
• 1. OVERVIEW STATISTICS FOR INPATIENT HOSPITAL STAYS
  • HIGHLIGHTS
  • EXHIBIT 1.1 Characteristics of U.S. Community Hospitals
  • EXHIBIT 1.2 Inpatient Hospital Stays and Average Length of Stay
  • EXHIBIT 1.3 Expected Primary Payer
  • EXHIBIT 1.4 Discharge Status
  • EXHIBIT 1.5 Patient Age
• 2. INPATIENT HOSPITAL STAYS BY DIAGNOSIS
  • HIGHLIGHTS
  • EXHIBIT 2.1 Reasons for Hospital Stays
  • EXHIBIT 2.2 Most Frequent Principal Diagnoses
  • EXHIBIT 2.3 Most Frequent Secondary Diagnoses
  • EXHIBIT 2.4 Most Frequent Principal Diagnoses by Age
  • EXHIBIT 2.5 Most Frequent Principal Diagnoses by Payer
• 3. INPATIENT HOSPITAL STAYS BY PROCEDURE
  • HIGHLIGHTS
  • EXHIBIT 3.1 Most Frequent All-listed Procedures
  • EXHIBIT 3.2 Most Frequent All-listed Procedures by Age
• 4. COSTS FOR INPATIENT HOSPITAL STAYS
  • HIGHLIGHTS
  • EXHIBIT 4.1 Cost by Diagnosis
  • EXHIBIT 4.2 Cost Factors Accounting for Growth by Diagnosis
  • EXHIBIT 4.3 Cost by Age
  • EXHIBIT 4.4 Cost by Payer
  • EXHIBIT 4.5 Cost by Diagnostic Category
• 5. WOMEN’S HEALTH
  • HIGHLIGHTS
  • EXHIBIT 5.1 Overview of Female and Male Hospital Stays
  • EXHIBIT 5.2 Common Conditions During Hospital Stays for Females
  • EXHIBIT 5.3 Mood Disorders
  • EXHIBIT 5.4 Procedures
  • EXHIBIT 5.5 Children
  • EXHIBIT 5.6 Childbirth
• SOURCES AND METHODS
• DEFINITIONS
• FOR MORE INFORMATION
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Suggested citation:

Wier LM (Thomson Reuters), Pfuntner A (Thomson Reuters), Maeda J (Thomson Reuters), Stranges E (Thomson Reuters), Ryan K (Thomson Reuters), Jagadish P (AHRQ), Collins Sharp B (AHRQ), Elixhauser A (AHRQ). HCUP Facts and Figures: Statistics on Hospital-based Care in the United States, 2009. Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2011 (http://www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports.jsp).