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Discharge Characteristics by:
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| Patient Sex |
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| Patient Race
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86% of hospitalizations
were white.
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8% of hospitalizations
were African American.
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3% of hospitalizations
were Native American.
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Patient
Age
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| Patient
Discharge Status
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82% of discharges were
to home
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12% of discharges were
to other types of facilities (e.g. skilled nursing, long term care, etc)
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2.8% of discharges died
in-hospital
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2.7% of discharges were
to other short term acute care hospitals
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Less than one percent
of discharges left against medical advice.
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| Length of Stay |
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The average hospital stay was 4.9 days.
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58% of discharges,
stayed in the hospital 3 days or less.
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84% of
discharges, stayed in the hospital one week or less.
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11% of
discharges, stayed in the hospital 8 to 14 days.
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5% of
discharges, stayed in the hospital longer than 14 days.
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Primary Payer |
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Commercial insurance
was the primary payer for 41% of discharges, accounting 38% of total charges (almost $1.5 billion).
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Medicare was the
primary payer for 38% of discharges, accounting for 46% of total charges (over $1.8 billion).
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Medicaid was the
primary payer for 15% of discharges, accounting for 10% of total charges (over $400 million).
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| The Most
Frequent Reasons for Hospitalization were: |
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Pneumonia (4.7% of
admissions)
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Clogging of the heart arteries (3.9% of
admissions)
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Congestive heart failure (2.8% of
admissions)
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Rehabilitation care, fitting of
prostheses, and adjustment of devices (2.7% of
admissions)
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Heart Attack (2.4% of
admissions)
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| Conditions Resulting in the Longest
Stays in the Hospital were: |
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- Preadult mental disorders (21.7 days)
- Spinal cord injury (14.8 days)
- Rehabilitation care, fitting of prostheses, and adjustment of
devices (14.8 days)
- Leukemias (13.8 days)
- Stomach cancer (13.5 days)
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| Conditions Resulting in the Most
Patient Days in the Hospital were: |
|
- Rehabilitation care, fitting of prostheses, and adjustment of
devices (162,988 patient days)
- Pneumonia (115,541 patient days)
- Mood disorders (65,790 patient days)
- Congestive heart failure (60,126 patient days)
- Clogging of the heart arteries (58,192 patient days)
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| Conditions Resulting in the Highest
Charges per Stay in the Hospital were: |
|
- Spinal cord injury ($62,865)
- Heart valve disorders ($47,149)
- Leukemias ($41,366)
- Cystic fibrosis ($41,062)
- Stomach cancer ($38,901)
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| Conditions Resulting in the Overall
Highest Total Charges were: |
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- Clogging of the heart arteries ($295,903,219)
- Heart Attack ($207,148,577)
- Pneumonia ($188,557,897)
- Rehabilitation care, fitting of prostheses, and adjustment of
devices ($166,489,386)
- Congestive heart failure ($109,128,514)
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| Conditions from which Patients were Most
Likely to Die from were: |
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- Cardiac arrest and ventricular fibrillation (56.7% of
hospitalizations died)
- Shock (55.6% of hospitalizations died)
- Liver and intrahepatic bile duct cancer (25.2% of hospitalizations
died)
- Cancer site not specified (24.4% of hospitalizations died)
- Respiratory failure, insufficiency, arrest (23.9% of
hospitalizations died)
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| Conditions Resulting in the Most
Patient Deaths were: |
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- Pneumonia (1,253 deaths)
- Heart Attack (913 deaths)
- Stroke (851 deaths)
- Blood infections except in labor (Septicemia) (731 deaths)
- Congestive heart failure (637 deaths)
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| The Most Frequent
Principal Procedures were: |
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- Circumcision (14,547 procedures)
- Other procedures to assist delivery (12,718 procedures)
- Cesarean section (9,616 procedures)
- Diagnostic cardiac catheterization, coronary arteriography (7,668
procedures)
- Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy, biopsy (7,596 procedures)
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