"Average Length of Stay by Year, by Diagnosis, for Diagnoses in the Top 20 in 2008"													
													
Note: Diagnoses that show no data for specific years were not in the top 20 diagnoses in that year.													
													
Diagnosis	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	"Change from 1998*, in days"	% Change
Non-Alzheimers dementia	57	56	57	63	69	81	82	86	89	91	89	32	56.1%
Debility NOS	51	50	51	56	59	65	70	73	77	82	83	32	62.7%
Lung CA	43	43	42	43	45	48	46	45	46	46	45	2	4.7%
CHF	52	52	54	58	64	72	73	73	83	78	75	23	44.2%
Non-infect. respiratory	63	62	63	67	74	80	82	83	86	85	86	23	36.5%
Failure to thrive				50	63	70	76	78	81	83	82	32	64.0%
Other heart disease	57	57	55	60	65	72	78	82	85	83	82	25	43.9%
Alzheimers	67	65	66	73	84	93	96	99	110	107	105	38	56.7%
CVA/Stroke	36	36	37	41	43	55	53	53	61	56	53	17	47.2%
Colo-rectal CA	49	49	49	50	54	55	54	54	56	53	55	6	12.2%
Chronic kidney disease	23	23	22	23	24	28	32	25	28	30	28	5	21.7%
Blood/lymph CA	37	37	36	36	37	41	40	39	42	42	41	4	10.8%
Parkinsons	67	66	68	73	87	87	94	95	111	106	104	37	55.2%
Pneumonias		37	36	37	37	39	42	43	41	40	36	-1	-2.7%
Breast CA	56	55	55	56	59	60	60	58	61	62	58	2	3.6%
Pancreatic CA	40	39	38	38	39	43	39	40	39	39	38	-2	-5.0%
Prostate CA	53	53	52	52	54	55	57	60	58	62	60	7	13.2%
Liver CA	35	35	35	36	42	38	38	37	38	39	37	2	5.7%
Chronic liver disease					45	43	45	43	48	45	44	-1	-2.2%
Bladder CA	37	37	36				41	39	41	41	41	4	10.8%
													
"*If no data in 1998, change is from first year shown where data were available."													
