Age-Adjusted Hospital Discharge Rates for Nontraumatic Lower Extremity Amputation per 10,000 Population, United States, 1980–2005
The age-adjusted rate of hospital discharge for nontraumatic lower extremity (LEA) per 10,000 population increased after the 1983 implementation of the prospective reimbursement system by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, leveled off during the mid-to-late 1980s, and then began increasing in the early 1990s. After peaking in 1996, LEA rates decreased slightly. In 2005, the age-adjusted LEA rate (2.4 per 10,000 population) was 1.5 times that of the rate in 1980 (1.6 per 10,000 population).
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Data Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Center for Health Statistics, Division of Health Care Statistics, data from the National Hospital Discharge Survey and Division of Health Interview Statistics, data from the National Health Interview Survey. U.S. Bureau of the Census, census of the population and population estimates and National Center for Health Statistics, CDC, bridged-race population estimates. Data computed by personnel in the Division of Diabetes Translation, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, CDC.
Page last reviewed: March 26, 2007
