Table 8. Top 10 Conditions with the Highest In-Hospital Mortality

Principal diagnosis 18-44 years 45-64 years 65-79 years 80+ years
Non-obstetric female patients Male patients Non-obstetric female patients Male patients Non-obstetric female patients Male patients Non-obstetric female patients Male patients
 In-hospital mortality (percent)
Cardiac arrest and ventricular fibrillation     60.0 42.6 62.9 48.7 71.3 69.8
Shock             65.5  
Respiratory failure, insufficiency, arrest 11.4 14.9 14.7 16.9 21.7 25.3 34.6 37.3
Peritonitis and intestinal abscess             28.4  
Aortic, peripheral, and visceral artery aneurysms             25.6  
Leukemias 13.4 12.5 17.6 17.8 23.9 25.8 25.2 25.4
Septicemia (except in labor)   8.4 13.1 13.8 17.4 17.5 22.7 23.1
Aspiration pneumonitis, food/vomitus 7.4   14.8   18.8 19.6 22.0 23.3
Cancer of liver and intrahepatic bile duct     17.3 22.6 17.2 20.0 19.1  
Cancer of bronchus, lung 13.6 15.6 14.6 15.7 14.8 17.5 17.8 21.0
Cancer of pancreas     14.0 16.7 15.8 17.0   23.8
Non-Hodgkins lymphoma 9.0 8.7           20.5
Intracranial injury   9.0           19.2
Chronic renal failure               18.9
Malignant neoplasm without specification of site     21.6 21.8 27.8 29.0    
Coma, stupor, and brain damage 9.3 12.8 15.8 18.3 14.9 20.1    
Cancer of esophagus       13.0        
Acute cerebrovascular disease (stroke) 10.6 11.4            
Secondary malignancies 9.9 9.4            
Liver disease, alcohol-related 7.3 8.0            
HIV infection 7.1              

Note: Because mortality rates may fluctuate over years for those conditions with a relatively small number of discharges, for each sex-age cohort only conditions with more than 1,000 weighted discharges were included in the analysis.

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