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Table 2. Ten Most Common Principal Diagnoses
| Ten Most Common Principal Diagnoses* |
Non-Safety-Net | Secondary Safety-Net | Safety-Net |
|---|
Total Number of Hospital Stays
(in thousands) |
Percent of Discharges |
Rank |
Total Number of Hospital Stays
(in thousands) |
Percent of Discharges |
Rank |
Total Number of Hospital Stays
(in thousands) |
Percent of Discharges |
Rank |
| Normal pregnancy and/or delivery |
3,013 |
10.7 |
1 |
644 |
10.6 |
1 |
431 |
11.0 |
1 |
| Hardening of the heart arteries and other heart disease (coronary arthrosclerosis) |
971 |
3.4 |
2 |
166 |
2.7 |
4 |
120 |
3.0 |
3 |
| Pneumonia |
953 |
3.4 |
3 |
236 |
3.9 |
2 |
126 |
3.2 |
2 |
| Congestive heart failure |
834 |
3.0 |
4 |
182 |
3.0 |
3 |
104 |
2.7 |
4 |
| Chest pain |
619 |
2.2 |
5 |
153 |
2.5 |
5 |
90 |
2.3 |
5 |
| Heart attack (acute myocardial infarction) |
580 |
2.1 |
6 |
107 |
1.8 |
10 |
63 |
1.6 |
10 |
| Trauma to vulva (external female genitals) and perineum (area between anus and vagina) |
565 |
2.0 |
7 |
117 |
1.9 |
7 |
67 |
1.7 |
9 |
| Cardiac dysrhythmias (irregular heart beat) |
544 |
1.9 |
8 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Spondylosis, intervertebral disc disorders (back problems, disorders of intervertebral discs and bones in spinal column) |
531 |
1.9 |
9 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Other maternal complications of birth and puerperium (period after childbirth) |
529 |
1.9 |
10 |
110 |
1.8 |
8 |
73 |
1.9 |
7 |
| Chronic obstructive lung disease |
|
| |
120 |
2.0 |
6 |
|
|
|
| Affective or mood disorders (depression and bipolar disorder) |
|
| |
107 |
1.8 |
9 |
86 |
2.2 |
6 |
| Asthma |
|
|
|
|
|
|
67 |
1.7 |
8 |
*Excludes newborn infant-related diagnoses.
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