Overview of U.S. Hospital Stays in 2016: Variation by Geographic Region

Excerpt

This HCUP Statistical Brief presents statistics on hospital inpatient stays in 2016, with a focus on geographic variation based on the nine U.S. census divisions. The number and distribution of hospital stays are presented overall, along with the population rate, mean cost, and mean length of stay overall and by census division. For both the United States as a whole and for each census division, the rate of stays is presented by select patient characteristics (age, sex community-level income, and patient residence location) and the distribution of stays is provided by expected primary payer. Because of the large sample sizes, we focus on the size of differences between estimates rather than statistical significance.