Top 20 Principal Diagnoses Among Hospitalized Medicare Enrollees Age 65 and Older

1. Congestive heart failure, nonhypertensive
2. Pneumonia
3. Coronary atherosclerosis and other heart diseases
4. Cardiac dysrhythmias
5. Osteoarthritis
6. Septicemia (except in labor)
7. Acute myocardial infarction
8. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and bronchiectasis
9. Acute cerebrovascular disease
10. Urinary tract infections
11. Complication of device, implant or graft
12. Nonspecific chest pain
13. Rehabilitation care, fitting of prostheses, and adjustment of devices
14. Fracture of neck of femur (hip)
15. Fluid and electrolyte disorders
16. Acute and unspecified renal failure
17. Respiratory failure, insufficiency, arrest (adult)
18. Gastrointestinal hemorrhage
19. Spondylosis, intervertabral disc disorders, other back problems
20. Syncope

Source: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Center for Delivery, Organization, and Markets, Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project, State Inpatient Databases, 2006.

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