Peer Reviewed: Computations of Confidence Intervals for Estimates in the United States National Hospital Discharge Survey, 1979–2000

Yao-Hua Luo Luo; Matthew Zack

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Prev Chronic Dis. 2005 Jul; 2(3): A06.

Published online 2005 Jun 15.

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Table 3

Calculations Using COMPURSE Compared With Calculations Using SUDAAN^a ^b

Category of First-Listed Diagnosis	All Ages			Aged 0-14 y			Aged 15-44 y			Aged 45-64 y			Aged ≥65 y

	N	SE	SER	N	SE	SER	N	SE	SER	N	SE	SER	N	SE	SER
All conditions	31,706	1,520	1,218	2,383	349	328	9,969	482	405	6,958	351	290	12,396	713	555
Infectious and parasitic diseases	787	40	42	160	24	26	173	11	12	150	10	10	305	20	18
Septicemia	326	18	20	16	3	3	32	3	5	62	5	6	216	15	14
Neoplasms	1,587	79	70	37	6	11	289	16	14	566	31	26	695	42	38
Malignant neoplasms	1,156	58	54	27	5	8	120	8	8	393	22	19	617	38	33

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Category of First-Listed Diagnosis	All Ages			Aged 0-14 y			Aged 15-44 y			Aged 45-64 y			Aged ≥65

	R	SE	SER	R	SE	SER	R	SE	SER	R	SE	SER	R	SE	SER
All conditions	1140.1	54.7	43.8	393.9	57.7	54.2	815.9	39.5	33.2	1141.7	57.6	47.6	3595.5	206.8	161.1
Infectious and parasitic diseases	28.3	1.5	1.5	26.4	4.0	4.4	14.2	0.9	1.0	24.6	1.6	1.7	88.5	5.9	5.2
Septicemia	11.7	0.7	0.7	2.6	0.5	0.5	2.6	0.3	0.4	10.2	0.9	1.0	62.7	4.4	4.2
Neoplasms	57.1	2.8	2.5	6.1	1.0	1.8	23.7	1.4	1.1	92.9	5.1	4.3	201.6	12.4	10.9
Malignant neoplasms	41.6	2.1	1.9	4.5	0.8	1.3	9.8	0.7	0.6	64.5	3.7	3.2	179.0	11.1	9.6

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^aThe number (N) and rate (R) of discharges from short-stay hospitals by first-listed diagnosis and age, United States, 2000. N is expressed per 1000. R is expressed per 10,000.

^bThe number (N) of discharges and standard errors in reference (SER) of five diseases were cited from Hall and Owings (6). SER was calculated with SUDAAN. N, R, and standard error (SE) were calculated with COMPURSE.