Utilization of short-stay hospitals by persons with heart disease and malignant neoplasms: National Hospital Discharge Survey. United States, 1977.

Based on data obtained from a national sample of the hospital records of inpatients &charged from non-Federal short-stay hospitals, hospital utilization by heart disease and malignant neoplasm patients is examined. The measures of hospital utilization employed are frequencies, rates, percents, and average Iengths of stay. Data are provided for these two specific diagnostic categories and for aII other patients and are tabuIated by patient age, sex, and surgical status.