Diabetes-Related Inpatient Hospitalizations in Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania 1997--Diabetes-Related Hospitalizations--Table 1

There were 262,817 diabetes-related hospitalizations in Pennsylvania in 1997. Of those, 100,158 (38.1%) admissions involved patients where diabetes or a complication of diabetes was the primary reason for hospitalization. Admissions where patients were admitted for a different primary reason, such as treatment for heart disease or renal failure but where diabetes was the secondary diagnosis, totaled 162,659 cases.

Total hospital charges for diabetes-related hospitalizations amounted to $4.4 billion. The average hospital charge for those with diabetes as the principal diagnosis was nearly $2,000 higher than treatment for diabetes as a secondary diagnosis.

The length of hospitalization, on average, was slightly higher for those with a secondary diagnosis (6.7 days) than those where diabetes was the primary reason for hospitalization (6.1 days).

	CASES		DOLLARS		DAYS		AVERAGES
	#	%	Total	%	Total	%	Dollars	Days
Diabetes-Related Admissions	262,817	100%	$4,387,062,306	100%	1,704,563	100%	$16,692	6.5

Diabetes-Related; Secondary Diagnosis	162,659	61.9%	$2,589,805,364	59.0%	1,094,162	64.2%	$15,922	6.7

Diabetes-Related; Principal Diagnosis	100,158	38.1%	$1,797,256,942	41.0%	610,401	35.8%	$17,944	6.1

Pennsylvania 1997--Diabetes-Related Hospitalizations--Figure 4