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National Hospital Discharge Survey, 1973

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Principal Investigator(s): United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Center for Health Statistics

Summary: This survey, which is part of a continuing sample of hospital discharge records, supplies medical and demographic information used to calculate statistics on hospital utilization. The data collection consists of information abstracted from the face sheets of the medical records for sampled inpatients discharged from a national sample of nonfederal short-stay hospitals. Variables include information on the patient's demographic characteristics (sex, age, date of birth, race, an... (view full summary)

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09827.v1

Access Notes

  • These data are available only to users at ICPSR member institutions. You will be asked to log in prior to downloading the data.

  • This dataset is maintained and distributed by the National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging (NACDA), the aging program within ICPSR. NACDA is sponsored by the National Institute on Aging (NIA) at the National Institutes of Heath (NIH).

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