Distribution of hospital inpatient stays and aggregate costs for U.S. children 2012
This statistic displays the distribution of hospital inpatient stays and aggregate hospital costs among U.S. children, aged 0 to 17 years, in 2012, by age group. During this year, 11.5 percent of aggregate hospital costs for children were due to children between one and four years old. Hospitalizations among children seem to have become more common among children with chronic conditions. Majority of hospitalizations among children were infants and newborns.
