Hospital Stays with Cardiac Stents, 2009

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This Statistical Brief presents data from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) on hospitalizations involving cardiac stents. Virtually all cardiac stent procedures, as reported in this Brief, are associated with a balloon angioplasty (PTCA). Specifically, variation in hospitalizations by patient demographics, hospital, and payer characteristics in 2009 and utilization trends over time are discussed, in some cases separately for drug-eluting and non-drug-eluting stents. All differences between estimates noted in the text are statistically significant at the 0.05 level or better.