Hospitalizations for Patients Aged 85 and Over in the United States

The report was released in January 2015 by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) within the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The report is an analysis of 11 years of data from the National Hospital Discharge Survey, an annual survey conducted annually until 2010. The analysis reports hospitalization and discharge trends for adults age 85 and older compared to other age groups and common causes of hospitalization for adults age 85 and older . . .