Definition: Number of hospital discharges among children ages 0-17, excluding newborns (e.g., in 2020, there were 171,769 hospitalizations among California children).
Data Source: California Dept. of Health Care Access and Information custom tabulation (Feb. 2021).
Footnote: Data are based on the number of hospitalizations, not the number of children hospitalized. Data are limited to hospital admissions; emergency department visits that do not result in admission are excluded. County-level data reflect the patient's county of residence, not the county in which the hospitalization occurred. Cases with unknown county of residence are included in California totals. Data are excluded for cases of patients with erroneous birth dates. Changes to admissions coding in 2017 could introduce variation in the exclusion of newborn cases; for more information, see the California Inpatient Data Reporting Manual.
