Geographic Variation In Inpatient Stays For Five Leading Substance Use Disorders, 2016–2018, HCUP Statistical Brief #289

On February 15, 2022, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) published this Statistical Brief #289 regarding geographic variation in inpatient stays for five leading substance use disorders (SUDs) from 2016 through 2018. This brief presents 3-year aggregate statistics on national, State, and substate regional variation in inpatient stays for SUDs among consumers of all ages at community hospitals (excluding rehabilitation and long-term care hospitals) using the 2016 through 2018 National Inpatient Sample (NIS) and the 2016 through 2018 State Inpatient Databases (SID . . .