Table 15. Conditions with the Highest In-Hospital Mortality

                                                            Years  

Top 10 diagnoses by age group             <1    1-17    18-44    45-64    65-79    80+
                                            
                                             In-hospital mortality (percent)
Lack of oxygen in infants               20.4
(intrauterine hypoxia and birth 
asphyxia)
Prematurity (short gestation) and        4.6
low birth weight
Respiratory distress syndrome (infant)   4.6
Birth trauma                             4.0
Other perinatal conditions               1.6
Other congenital anomalies               0.6
Nervous system congenital anomalies      0.4
Heart defects (cardiac and circulatory   2.6     0.4
congenital anomalies)
Immunity disorders                       0.4     1.4
Cardiac arrest and ventricular           0.5     0.5      3.3     12.5     21.1   12.9
fibrillation
Cystic fibrosis                                  0.6
Other injuries and conditions due to             0.5
external causes
Cancer, other and unspecified primary            0.5
Intracranial injury                              0.8      2.5
Coma, stupor, and brain damage                   0.6      1.8                      4.0
Leukemia                                         0.5      2.1      4.6      7.9
Shock                                            0.7      3.1      8.4     17.2   21.5
HIV infection                                             6.1
Hodgkin's disease                                         3.3
Crushing injury or internal injury                        1.9
Liver disease, alcohol related                            2.5      6.4
Malignant neoplasm without                                1.8      8.4     13.7    5.8
specification of site
Cancer of esophagus                                                5.1
Secondary malignancy                                               4.2
Other liver diseases                                               3.9
Cancer of liver and intrahepatic                                   6.0      7.0
bile duct
Cancer of bronchus or lung                                         4.7      7.9
Cancer of pancreas                                                          6.4
Myeloma                                                                     6.2
Respiratory failure, insufficiency,                                        10.2    7.4
arrest (adult)
Aneurysm                                                                    6.9    4.5
Aspiration pneumonitis (from food                                                 11.2
or vomit)
Acute and unspecified kidney failure                                               6.4
Blood infection (septicemia)                                                       6.4
Stroke (acute cerebrovascular disease)                                             4.2

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