Most Frequent Procedures Performed in U.S. Hospitals, 2010

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This Statistical Brief presents data from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) on the most common all-listed procedures performed during hospital stays in the United States in 2010, overall and by patient age. Changes between 1997 and 2010 in the number of stays and the rate of hospitalization in the population are presented for hospital stays with the most common procedures performed in 2010. All differences between estimates noted in the text are statistically significant at the .001 level or better.