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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/factsandfigures/2007/pdfs/section1_1.pdf
January 01, 2007 - 1,000 population* 127.8 131.1
Total days of care in mill ions 168.1 181.7
Average length of stay … 73% 72%
Private for-profit hospitals 13% 13%
Charges and costs †
Charges
Average charges per stay … $11,300 $26,100
Average inflation-adjusted charges per stay in 2007 dollars ‡ $14,200 $26,100
Costs … Total aggregate costs in bill ions $177.1 $343.9
Average costs per stay $5,100 $8,700
Inflation-adjusted … costs in 2007 dollars ‡
Total aggregate costs in bill ions $222.4 $343.9
Average costs per stay
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/nis/tools/stats/D_FILESP_1997.PDF
January 01, 1997 - Description Data Set Name Records Length Bytes
Number of Record Number of
1997
Full NIS, Inpatient Stay … Core File A NIS97_A.ASC 7,148,420 95 693,396,740
Full NIS, Inpatient Stay Core File B NIS97_B.ASC 7,148,420 … 91 664,803,060
Full NIS, Inpatient Stay Core File C NIS97_C.ASC 7,148,420 65 478,944,140
Full NIS, … NIS97_PR.ASC 10,263,021 19 215,523,441
Hospital Weights File NIS97WT.ASC 1,012 251 256,036
Inpatient Stay … 3,391,264 20 74,607,808
Core File PR (procedures) N97S1_PR.ASC 1,028,755 19 21,603,855
Inpatient Stay
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/factsandfigures/2009/pdfs/FF_2009_exhibit1_1.pdf
January 01, 2009 - 10,000 population* 1,278 1,284
Total days of care in mill ions 168.1 180.6
Average length of stay … 73% 71%
Private for-profit hospitals 13% 14%
Charges and costs†
Charges
Average charges per stay … $11,300 $30,700
Average inflation-adjusted charges per stay in 2009 dollars** $14,600 $30,700
Costs … Total aggregate costs in bill ions $177.1 $361.5
Average costs per stay $5,100 $9,200
Inflation-adjusted … costs in 2009 dollars**
Total aggregate costs in bill ions $229.6 $361.5
Average costs per stay
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/nis/DataElements_NIS_2004_Severity.pdf
January 01, 2004 - Principal Disease Category ........................... 41
DS_LOS_Level - Disease Staging: Length of Stay … Level.............................................. 42
DS_LOS_Scale - Disease Staging: Length of Stay … Manual
Uniform Values
Variable Description Value Value Description
nnn.nnnnn APSDRG Length of Stay … Weight APSDRG_LOS_Weight All-Payer
Severity-
adjusted
DRG: Length
of Stay
Weight
. … Scale DS_LOS_Scale Disease
Staging:
Length of Stay
Scale
.
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/factsandfigures/2007/definitions.jsp
January 01, 2007 - Comorbidities can make a hospital stay more expensive and complicated. … Discharge
Discharge refers to the hospital stay. … Length of stay
Length of stay is the number of nights the patient remained in the hospital for his … or her stay. … Payers
Payer is the expected payer for the hospital stay.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/40067/psn-pdf
December 08, 2010 - Slowing down to stay out of trouble in the operating
room: remaining attentive in automaticity. … Slowing down to stay out of trouble in the operating room:
remaining attentive in automaticity. … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/slowing-down-stay-out-trouble-operating-room-remaining-attentive-automaticity … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/slowing-down-stay-out-trouble-operating-room-remaining-attentive-automaticity
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/74835/psn-pdf
February 16, 2022 - emergency department admission
diagnosis and hospital discharge diagnosis and its
impact on length of stay … emergency department admission
diagnosis and hospital discharge diagnosis and its impact on length of stay … of patients had discordant diagnoses;
discordant diagnosis was associated with increased length of stay
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/factsandfigures/2009/definitions.jsp
January 01, 2009 - Length of stay
Length of stay is the number of nights the patient remained in the hospital for his … or her stay. … A patient admitted and discharged on the same day has a length of stay equal to 0. … Payers
Payer is the expected payer for the hospital stay. … All-listed procedures include all procedures performed during the hospital stay.
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/sb246-Geographic-Variation-Hospital-Stays.pdf
February 01, 2018 - of 4.6 days and
a mean cost of $11,700 per stay. … Overall, the mean length of stay was 4.6
days. … ■ Females had a higher rate of stays but a lower mean length of stay and mean cost per stay
than … ■ Patients covered by Medicare had the longest mean length of stay and highest mean cost per
stay … • Length of Stay: The mean
length of stay ranged from
4.3 days in the Mountain
division to 5.0
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/sb23.pdf
January 01, 2007 - This is most
likely explained by the 38.5 percent decline in the length of stay. … The uninsured had the lowest average hospital cost per stay. … length of stay and highest inpatient mortality rate. … Length of stay and inpatient death rate remained higher among men. … Payer
Up to two payers can be coded for a hospital stay in HCUP data.
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/nis/DataElements_NIS_2002_Severity.pdf
January 01, 2002 - DRG: Mortality Weight............5
APSDRG_LOS_Weight - All-Payer Severity-adjusted DRG: Length of Stay … Principal Disease Category .............................38
DS_LOS_Level - Disease Staging: Length of Stay … Level................................................39
DS_LOS_Scale - Disease Staging: Length of Stay … Weight
APSDRG_LOS_Weight All-Payer
Severity-
adjusted
DRG: Length
of Stay
Weight
. … Scale DS_LOS_Scale Disease
Staging:
Length of Stay
Scale
.
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/nis/DataElements_NIS_2003_SEVERITY.pdf
January 01, 2003 - Severity-adjusted DRG: Mortality Weight8
APSDRG_LOS_Weight - All-Payer Severity-adjusted DRG: Length of Stay … Stage of Principal Disease Category .................41
DS_LOS_Level - Disease Staging: Length of Stay … Level ...................................42
DS_LOS_Scale - Disease Staging: Length of Stay Scale... … Weight
APSDRG_LOS_Weight All-Payer
Severity-
adjusted
DRG:
Length of
Stay Weight
. … Scale DS_LOS_Scale Disease
Staging:
Length of
Stay Scale
.
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/factsandfigures/2008/pdfs/section1_2.pdf
January 01, 2008 - Care in the United States, 2008 12
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Average Length of Stay … Number of Inpatient Hospital Stays and Average Length of Stay, 1993-2008
The average length of stay … The average length of stay (ALOS) in 2008 (4.6 days) was almost 20 percent shorter than in 1993
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/factsandfigures/2007/pdfs/section1_2.pdf
January 01, 2007 - Care in the United States, 2007 10
EXHIBIT 1.2 Inpatient Hospital Stays and Average Length of Stay … m
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Average Length of Stay … Number of Inpatient Hospital Stays and Average Length of Stay, 1993-2007
The average length of … stay in U.S. community hospitals stabilized beginning in 2000, while the number of hospital
stays continued … The average length of stay (ALOS) in 2007 was 4.6 days—almost 20 percent shorter than in 1993, when
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/factsandfigures/2008/pdfs/section1_1.pdf
January 01, 2008 - population* 127.8 131.0‡
Total days of care in mill ions 168.1 183.6
Average length of stay … 73% 73%
Private for-profit hospitals 13% 13%
Charges and costs†
Charges
Average charges per stay … $11,300 $29,000
Average inflation-adjusted charges per stay in 2008 dollars** $14,500 $29,000
Costs … Total aggregate costs in bill ions $177.1 $364.7
Average costs per stay $5,100 $9,100
Inflation-adjusted … costs in 2008 dollars**
Total aggregate costs in bill ions $227.2 $364.7
Average costs per stay
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/sb228-Breast-Reconstruction-For-Mastectomy.jsp
October 01, 2017 - from those that occurred during another stay or visit following the mastectomy. … Black: with simultaneous mastectomy, 33.7%; with mastectomy at separate stay or visit, 66.3%. … Other: with simultaneous mastectomy, 34.7%; with mastectomy at separate stay or visit, 65.3%. … Rural: with simultaneous mastectomy, 24.0%; with mastectomy at separate stay or visit, 76.0%. … Payer
Payer is the expected payer for the hospital stay.
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/factsandfigures/2008/exhibit5_1.jsp
January 01, 2008 - 4.4
1.6
Total days of care in millions
183.6
13.1
10.8
2.3
Average length of stay … The average length of stay (ALOS) for any MHSA condition was 7.1 days. … When the main reason for the stay was a SA disorder, the average length of stay (4.7 days) was similar … Average charges per stay—the amounts patients are billed for their rooms, nursing care, diagnostic tests … The average cost for a MHSA stay ($5,500) was smaller than for all stays ($9,100) in 2008.
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/sb132.pdf
March 01, 2012 - Variations
in cost and length of stay are described by cancer site. … ■ From 2000 to 2009, the mean cost per
stay for pediatric cancer hospitalizations
rose 36 percent … per stay) and non-Hodgkin’s
4 Siegel R, Ward E, Brawley O, Jemal A. … than increased length of hospital
stay (data not shown). … Payer
Payer is the expected primary payer for the hospital stay.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/43827/psn-pdf
January 14, 2015 - The surprising way to stay safe in the hospital. … January 14, 2015
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/surprising-way-stay-safe-hospital
This news article summarizes … and enable partnerships to help ensure safe care include engaging others to
assist during a hospital stay … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/surprising-way-stay-safe-hospital
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/what-patient-centered-should-mean-confessions-extremist
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/factsandfigures/2009/pdfs/FF_2009_exhibit4_2.pdf
January 01, 2009 - Growth* in Inflation-adjusted
Aggregate Costs by Principal Diagnosis, 1997-2009
Growth in Cost per Stay … The contribution of the growth in the number of stays, the growth in the cost per stay and
population … The
factors that comprised this overall growth were:
Greater intensity of services (cost per stay … ) provided during the hospital stay (averaging 2.8 percent
annually),
Population growth (up 1.0 … Higher than average growth in cost per stay, indicating greater intensity of service utilization