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Subject: Volume of surgery procedures in the US in 2004 broken down by sub-specialties
Category: Health
Asked by: philip10025-ga
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Posted: 25 Oct 2005 12:19 PDT
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Question ID: 584773
Ex: 200,000 surgeries for carotid-clearing; 75,000 for weight-loss
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Request for Question Clarification by pafalafa-ga on 25 Oct 2005 12:38 PDT
Phillip,

The most recent data available for inpatient surgeries appears to be
for 2003 (published July 2005).


Would the 2003 data meet your needs?

pafalafa-ga

Clarification of Question by philip10025-ga on 25 Oct 2005 12:40 PDT
Data from 2003 would be fine too. I would particularly appreciate and
reward then trend information (ex: growth of that procedure over the
last x years)
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Subject: Re: Volume of surgery procedures in the US in 2004 broken down by sub-specialties
Answered By: pafalafa-ga on 25 Oct 2005 15:36 PDT
Rated:5 out of 5 stars
 
Phillip,

Thanks for getting back to me.


I've identified a number of reports that cover the data on inpatient
surgeries in the US for the past decade or so.


To see the full data sets, I suggest you peruse the reports at the
links provided in my answer, below.  I have extracted the numbers for
some of the more common surgical procedures, and presented them here.

I trust the information provided will fully meet your needs.

However, please don't rate this answer if you find you would like
additional information.  Instead, just post a Request for
Clarification to let me know how I can assist you further, and I am at
your service.

All the best,

pafalafa-ga


===============

The most recent dataset for inpatient surgeries comes from the
Hospital Discharge Survey of the Centers for Disease Cotnrol and
Prevention:


http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/ad/ad359.pdf
July 8, 2005
Advance Data
2003 National Hospital Discharge Survey


In particular, the data on surgical procedures for 2003 can be found in Table 8:
Number of all-listed procedures for discharges from short-stay
hospitals by procedure category and age: United States, 2003


I've extracted from that table all surgical procedures for which there
were more than 500,000 performed in 2003:




Operations on the nervous system..............................1,241,000



Operations on the respiratory system .........................1,062,000



Operations on the cardiovascular system .......................6,821,000

--Balloon angioplasty of coronary artery 
  or coronary atherectomy................................664,000

--Insertion of coronary artery stent(s)..................574,000

--Cardiac catheterization..............................1,257,000




Operations on the digestive system .............................5,737,000


Endoscopy of large intestine with or without biopsy ..............615,000


Operations on the urinary system................................1,014,000


Operations on the female genital organs ........................2,052,000

--Hysterectomy............................................615,000

--Episiotomy with or without forceps or vacuum
extraction................................................716,000

--Artificial rupture of membranes.........................884,000

--Cesarean section .....................................1,130,000

--Repair of current obstetric laceration ...............1,198,000



Operations on the musculoskeletal system ........................3,737,000

--Reduction of fracture...................................643,000



Operations on the integumentary system...........................1,403,000



===============



The same report also lists the rate of procedures, per 10,000
population, in Table 9:
Rate of all-listed procedures for discharges from short-stay hospitals
by procedure category and age: United States, 2003






===============



Similar comparative data for 2001 can be found in the Discharge Survey
report for 2001, which presents the data in order of the, ahem, most
popular surgeries:


http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hdasd/sr13_156t26.pdf

Table 26. Number and rate of all-listed surgical and nonsurgical
procedures for discharges from short-stay hospitals, by selected
procedure categories: United States, 2001

 
Cardiac catheterization................................................1,208,000

Repair of current obstetric laceration.................................1,185,000

Removal of coronary artery obstruction/insertion of stent(s) ..1,051,000

Cesarean section ................................................973,000

Artificial rupture of membranes .................................848,000

Episiotomy with or without forceps or vacuum extraction .........843,000

Hysterectomy ....................................................649,000

Reduction of fracture ...........................................638,000
--Open reduction of fracture with internal fixation ........432,000

Endoscopy of small intestine with biopsy .........................563,000

Coronary artery bypass graft .....................................516,000

Oophorectomy and salpingo-oophorectomy ...........................510,000



===============


Also, there is some convenient trends data presented in the ever-handy
Statistical Abstracts of the United States - 2004:


http://www.census.gov/prod/2004pubs/04statab/health.pdf


See table No. 165:
Procedures for Inpatients Discharged From Short-Stay Hospitals: 1990 to 2002


Number of procedures (in thousands -- 23,051 = 23,051,000)

..........................................1990......1995......2000......2002

Surgical procedures, total. . . . . . . 23,051 ...22,530.....23,244 ....25,255

Cardiac catheterization . . . . . . .  . . 995.....1,068..... 1,221..... 1,328

Removal of coronary artery obstruction . . 285...... 434..... 1,025..... 1,204

Reduction of fracture . . . . . . . . . . .609 ......577........628....... 606

Coronary artery bypass graft . . . . . . . 392...... 573....... 519....... 515

Repair of current obstetric laceration . . 795...... 964..... 1,136..... 1,234

Cesarean section . . . . . . . . . . . . . 945...... 785....... 855..... 1,059

Hysterectomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591...... 583....... 633....... 669

[apologies in advance if these mini-tables don't format
properly...it's sometimes hard to get them to line up after posting ]


===============


Lastly, an overview report of healthcare in the US presents another
look at trends, according to rates (rather than raw numbers) of
surgeries:


http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/misc/healthcare.pdf
Health Care in America: Trends in Utilization


The data are presented in sections, such as the one on "Selected
Cardiac Procedures, by Age", and usually end in summary charts or
tables:

Chart 33A: Coronary artery bypass graft surgeries for discharges from
short-stay hospitals, by age: United States, 1990?2000




Again, I hope that's everything you need, but if not, just let me know
what else I can do for you.



pafalafa-ga



search strategy -- Used bookmarked sites for health statistics.
philip10025-ga rated this answer:5 out of 5 stars and gave an additional tip of: $20.00
Exactly what I needed

Comments  
Subject: Re: Volume of surgery procedures in the US in 2004 broken down by sub-specialties
From: pafalafa-ga on 25 Oct 2005 17:22 PDT
 
Thanks so much...hope we'll see you back here one day soon.

paf

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