Hospitalizations for AIDS, United States, 1984-85.

Hospitalizations for patients aged 85 and over in the United States, 2000-2010.

KEY FINDINGS Data from the National Hospital Discharge Survey. In 2010, adults aged 85 and over accounted for only 2% of the U.S. population but 9% of hospital discharges. From 2000 through 2010, the rate of hospitalizations for adults aged 85 and over declined from 605 to 553 hospitalizations per 1,000 population, a 9% decrease. The rate of fractures and other injuries was higher for adults ag...

Genital herpes infection--United States, 1966-1984.

Leptospirosis-Associated Hospitalizations, United States, 1998–2009

A small percentage of persons with leptospirosis, a reemerging zoonosis, experience severe complications that require hospitalization. The number of leptospirosis cases in the United States is unknown. Thus, to estimate the hospitalization rate for this disease, we analyzed US hospital discharge records for 1998-2009 for the total US population by using the Nationwide Inpatient Sample. During t...

Methicillin-resistant–Staphylococcus aureus Hospitalizations, United States

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is increasingly a cause of nosocomial and community-onset infection with unknown national scope and magnitude. We used the National Hospital Discharge Survey to calculate the number of US hospital discharges listing S. aureus-specific diagnoses, defined as those having at least 1 International Classification of Diseases (ICD)-9 code specific fo...

Utilization of short-stay hospitals by patients with AIDS: United States, 1984-86.

The number of cases of acquired immunodeficieney syndrome (AIDS) reported to Control (CDC) has increased 19S4, 4,445 cases of AIDS were S,249 new cases were reported, In 1986, 12,932 new cases of the Centers for Disease each year since 1984. In reported to CDC, in 1985, an increase of 86 percent. AIDS were reported, an increase of 57 percent from 1985 (CDC, 1986). During 1986 an estimated 37,00...