The report is based on data from the American Hospital Association annual survey, the American Medical Association physician practice benchmark survey, the Census Bureau delineation files and population estimates, the healthcare cost and utilization project national inpatient samples, RAND hospital data and other sources.
Maternal stays accounted for 1 in 10 hospitalizations and neonatal stays accounted for the same; hospital stays for mothers and newborns were recorded separately. Medicaid covered about 41% of births nationally.
Other hospitalizations were categorized as medical (50%), surgical (18%), injury (5%), and mental health and substance abuse (5%) discharges.
Here were the most common reasons for hospital stays in 2021 across all ages, excluding maternal and neonatal stays.
Sepsis — 739 stays per 100,000
COVID-19 — 468
Heart failure — 328
Diabetes with complication — 206
Heart attack — 177
Arrhythmia — 174
Ischemic stroke — 162
Acute and unspecific kidney failure — 145
Pneumonia — 138
Urinary tract infection — 134
