Hospitalization rates for epilepsy in the United States, 1973-1976.
Data on numbers of admissions and admission rates for all-listed and first-listed epilepsy in nonfederal short-stay hospitals are presented. These statistics are based on 232,000 hospital discharge records from a probability sample of approximately 7,000 hospitals. The patterns of admission rates for epilepsy are compared with the prevalence of epilepsy and trends of admission rates for all conditions.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005260:Female; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010351:Patient Discharge; D014481:United States