Midwest hospitals lead in newborn male circumcision rates Research Activities, April 2012 More than 75 percent of male infants born in Midwest hospitals are circumcised—three times the number circumcised in hospitals in the West, according to a new statistical brief from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Circumcisions Performed in U.S. Hospitals, 2009. This brief looks at trend data since 1993, circumcision rates by payer, income, and location, and average length of stay for babies who are circumcised.The data are from the Nationwide Inpatient Sample, a database of the AHRQ-administered Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (see Databases and Related Tools from HCUP: Fact Sheet ). Current as of April 2012 Internet Citation: Midwest hospitals lead in newborn male circumcision rates: Research Activities, April 2012. April 2012. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/research-activities/apr12/0412RA26.html
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