Birth
Defects/Congenital
Anomalies
(Data
are for U.S. for year in parentheses)
Health care use
Hospital inpatient care
Number of discharges for all
ages: 207,000 (2001)
Average length of stay: 5.5
days (2001)
Source:
2001 National Hospital
Discharge Survey
Mortality
Number of deaths for all ages:
10,442 (2001)
Number of infant deaths: 5,513
(2001)
Infant deaths per 100,000 live
births: 136.9 (2001)
Cause of infant death rank: 1
(2001)
Source:
Deaths:
Final Data for 2001
More
Data
Infant
Mortality Statistics from the 2001 Period Linked Birth/Infant Death Data Set
Births:
Final Data for 2002
Trends
in Spina Bifida and Anencephalus in the United States, 1991-2002
Related Links
Birth
data
Mortality
data
National
Hospital Discharge Survey
National
Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities
National
Institute of Child Health and Human Development
This page last reviewed
March 25, 2004
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