HCUP Facts and Figures: Statistics on Hospital-Based Care in the United States, 2007 [Internet]

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HCUP Facts and Figures: Statistics on Hospital-based Care in the United States, 2007 presents information derived from the 2007 Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS), with trend information as far back as 1993. This report includes information from the 2007 database containing discharge records for all patients treated in a sample of approximately 1,000 hospitals. These discharges are weighted to represent all inpatient stays in community hospitals across the nation. Community hospitals include all non-Federal, short-term, acute care hospitals; psychiatric and substance abuse facilities and short-term rehabilitation hospitals are not included.