10.3886/ICPSR09344.v1 United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Center for Health Statistics Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research 1990 demographic characteristics health care facilities hospitalization hospitals illness medical care medical evaluation medical procedures medical records patients payment methods treatment 1990-12-04 1992-02-17 survey data, and clinical data 9344 1 The 1987 National Hospital Discharge Survey, which is part of a continuing sample of hospital discharge records, supplies medical and demographic information used to calculate statistics on hospital utilization. This survey consists of data abstracted from the face sheets of the medical records for sampled inpatients discharged from a national sample of nonfederal short-stay hospitals. The variables include information on the patient's demographic characteristics (sex, age, date of birth, race, marital status), dates of admission and discharge, status at discharge, diagnoses, procedures performed, source of payment, and hospital characteristics such as number of beds, ownership, and region of the country.