The number of hospital stays for acute and unspecified renal failures increased from 98,000 in 1997 to 404,000 in 2010.
The top 10 diagnoses with the most rapid growth in number of hospital stays between 1997 and 2010, according to the brief, were:
• Acute and unspecified renal failure — 264 percent increase (from 3.6 to 13.1 stays per 10,000 population)
• Prolonged pregnancy — 136 percent increase (from 3.8 to 9 stays per 10,000 population)
• Pulmonary heart disease — 112 percent increase (from 2.9 to 6.2 stays per 10,000 population)
• Osteoarthritis — 106 percent increase (from 15.3 to 31.5 stays per 10,000 population)
• Deficiency and other anemia — 103 percent increase (from 3.7 to 7.4 stays per 10,000 population)
• Septicemia (except in labor) — 99 percent increase (from 15.2 to 30.2 stays per 10,000 population)
• Skin and subcutaneous tissue infections — 75 percent increase (from 12.1 to 21.2 stays per 10,000 population)
• Previous Cesarean section — 63 percent increase (from 10 to 16.3 stays per 10,000 population)
• Respiratory failure/insufficiency/arrest (adult) — 61 percent increase (from 7.3 to 11.7 stays per 10,000 population)
• Intestinal infection — 54 percent increase (from 5 to 7.7 stays per 10,000 population)
The total number of hospital stays for these diagnoses increased from approximately 34 million in 1997 to 39 million in 2010.
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