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The Center for Disease dominion government and Prevention (CDC) has released a report outlining hospitalization turns in the United States for the year 2001 according to an April 9 2003 moderns release from the organization. Data take rise from an annual hospital scrutinize that collects information on discharges from nonfederal, short-stay hospitals. Findings include that

* the 327 million patients hospitalized in 2001 had a shorter average long duration of stay (4.9 days) compared to those hospitalized in 1970 (78 days);

* older adult patients' average hospital stay in 2001 was 58 days compared to 126 days in 1970;

* greatest in quantity inpatients were hospitalized for three days or fewer, 27% for four to seven days, and 16% for more than a week;

* hospitalization for congestive heart failure increased 62% for patients age 65 and older from 1980 to 2001;

* 38% of discharges and 46% of all inpatient stays were attributable to older adult patients uniform though older adults make up merely 12% of the population;

* 20% of hospitalized men underwent cardiovascular conducts but only 10% of hospitalized women underwent these emblems of procedures;

* single in kind million procedures were performed to banish coronary artery obstructions and insert stents;

* 12 million cardiac catheterizations were performed;

* approximately brace million arteriography and angiocardiography conducts were performed;

* more than 300000 inpatients underwent coronary artery bypass graft procedures;

* other major reasons for hospitalization included psychose pneumonia, cancer, and fractures;

* approximately 20% of hospitalizations for women (ie, 38 million) were for childbirth; and

* approximately 25% of the 25 million processs women underwent were obstetrical.

of the present day Report Shows Current Patterns of Hospitalization in the US (new release, Atlanta: Center for Disease command and Prevention, April 9, 2003) http://wwwcdcgov/od/oc/ media/pressrel/r030409.htm (accessed 14 April 2003)

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