Leading major diagnostic categories in hospitalizations among U.S. children 2012
This statistic displays the top major diagnostic categories, excluding newborns, for hospital stays among U.S. children, aged 0 to 17 years, in 2012. During this year, 234,000 hospital stays among children were due to the digestive system. Hospitalizations among children seem to have become more common among children with chronic conditions. Majority of hospitalizations among children were infants and newborns.