Obstetrics

Longer Hospital Stays after Childbirth Reported in U.S.

Published in Women's Health Weekly, July 12th, 1999

The latest data on hospitalization in the United States show longer hospital stays for childbirth, according to the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The findings, which reflect medical advances as well as changes in health policy and health care delivery, appear in the first issues of NCHS Health E-Stats, a series of Internet data releases on topics of current interest and importance.

In an analysis of data from the National Hospital Discharge Survey, a survey of patients discharged from a sample of the U.S. non-Federal short-stay hospital, NCHS researchers monitored hospital...

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