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<p>The information requested is set out in the following table.</p><p> </p><p>This
is based on finished discharge episodes with a primary or secondary diagnosis of "Z38
- Live born infants according to place of birth", by length of stay for the year
2012/13 and covers activity in English NHS Hospitals and English NHS commissioned
activity in the independent sector.</p><p> </p><p>It should be noted that the length
of stay in hospital is only available on the final episode of care in a hospital provider.
Therefore the total of "other / unknown" lengths of stay recorded includes
those births that have not resulted in a discharge, such as where the baby has been
transferred to the care of another consultant.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Length
of stay</p></td><td><p>Finished Discharge Episodes</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Up to 2
weeks</p></td><td><p>617,189</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2-4 weeks</p></td><td><p>5,227</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>4-6
weeks</p></td><td><p>1,680</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>6 weeks+</p></td><td><p>1,778</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other/unknown</p></td><td><p>47,133</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p><em>Source:</em> Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), Health and Social Care
Information Centre</p><p> </p><p><em>Notes: </em></p><p>1. Finished Discharge Episode:
A discharge episode is the last episode during a hospital stay (a spell), where the
patient is discharged from the hospital or transferred to another hospital.</p><p>2.
Primary or secondary diagnosis: The number of episodes where this diagnosis was recorded
in any of the 20 diagnosis fields in the Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) record.
Each episode is counted once, even if the diagnosis is recorded in more than one diagnosis
field of the record.</p><p>3. ICD10 code: The following ICD10 code was used to identify
a live born infant: Z38 - Live born infants according to place of birth.</p><p>4.
Length of stay (duration of spell): The difference in days between the admission date
and the episode end date (duration of episode) or discharge date (duration of spell),
where both dates are given. LOS is based on hospital stays and only applies to ordinary
admissions not day cases (unless otherwise stated). Information relating to LOS, including
discharge method/destination, diagnoses and any operative procedures, is based only
on the final episode of the spell.</p>
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