Using HUCPnet (http://hcupnet.ahrq.gov/) , select “National Statistics for All S

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Using HUCPnet (http://hcupnet.ahrq.gov/) , select “National Statistics for All Stays”. Then, click on the following to perform your query: Lay person, data novice Trends Diagnoses/conditions AIDS/HIV Infection Length of hospital stay (days), mean Accept tab Write a narrative to explain the 1993 – 2013 trend. 2. Using the same process as above, and for Diagnoses/Conditions, select “Cancer of Stomach” of Stomach Cancer and “Percent died in the hospital”. Save data results as Excel spreadsheet and submit.

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The average length of hospital stay (LOS in days) of AIDS/HIV Infected persons shows decreasing trend from the year 1993 to year 1996. In the year 1993, the average LOS was 11.454 days and it is decreased to 9.243 days in three years. That means, major changes in the diagnoses
of AIDS/HIV Infection was made in those years. Afterwords form the year 1996 to 2013, no trend is observed in average LOS. The LOS is some what constant from the year 1996 to 2013 and which is about 9 days approximately. The maximum average LOS is 11.454 and the minimum average LOS is 8.911 in the year 1993 and 2005 respectively. The graph also shows that the procedure for AIDS/HIV diagnoses takes 9 days approximately in recent years.

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