What does NIS stand for?

Nationwide Inpatient Sample

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Samples in periodicals archive:

The Hospital Utilization Among Near-Elderly Adults, Ages 55 to 64 Years report used statistics from the 2007 Nationwide Inpatient Sample, a database of hospital inpatient stays in short-term, non-federal hospitals.

More bucks to treat boomers

The data are from the 2006 Nationwide Inpatient Sample, part of AHRQ's Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project.

Hospital discharges to post-acute care on rise

Nationwide inpatient sample (NIS) [cited 2008 June 1].

Clostridium difficile--related hospitalizations among US adults, 2006

The current study, reported in the Annals of Surgery, involved an analysis of data from 19,156 subjects who underwent gastric bypass surgery in 2005 and were logged in the Nationwide Inpatient Sample, the largest all-payer inpatient database in the U.

United States: Laparoscopic gastric bypass provides better results

A comparison of rates of hospitalisation for selected morbidities among HW positive and negative pregnant women in the USA used data from the 1994-2003 Nationwide Inpatient Sample, descriptive statistics and multivariate logistic regression to examine socio-demographic characteristics, morbidity outcomes and time trends.

Hospitalisation of HIV positive pregnant women in USA before and ...

pdf> The report uses statistics from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project Nationwide Inpatient Sample, a database of hospital inpatient stays that is nationally representative of all short-term, non-federal hospitals.

AHRQ reports more than 1 million ADEs in U.S. hospitals

We used data from the nationwide inpatient sample to define differences in outcomes after LGB versus open gastric bypass (OGB).

Outcomes after Open vs Laparoscopic Gastric Bypass

He presents new results on these topics based on hospital discharge data from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project's (HCUP) Nationwide Inpatient Sample.

Frontiers in Health Policy Research