The data brief was complied using information collected from the National Hospital Discharge Survey conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention between 2000 and 2010.
The overall inpatient hospital death rate between 2000 and 2010 decreased by 20 percent, according to the brief. The inpatient hospital death rate for most individual diagnoses decreased, with the exception of septicemia. The diagnoses with the most significant changes in death rate, according to the brief, are:
• Kidney disease — decreased by 65 percent
• Cancer — decreased by 46 percent
• Respiratory failure — decreased by 35 percent
• Pneumonia — decreased by 33 percent
• Stroke — decreased by 27 percent
• Pneumonitis due to solids and liquids — decreased by 22 percent
• Heart disease — decreased by 16 percent
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