Trends & Projections In Hospital Stays For Adults With Multiple Chronic Conditions, 2003-2014

This document was released in November 2014 by the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). The analysis is based on historical inpatient data from 2003 through 2012 along with early 2013 data from nine states. The researchers sought to develop national quarterly projections of non-maternal hospital inpatient stays and average hospital costs among adult patients with and without multiple chronic conditions (MCC) through 2014. They found that between 2003 and 2014, non-maternal hospital stays among adults were two to three times more likely to involve MCC than no MCC . . .