Data Show Hospital Stays for Teen Pregnancy Are Declining: AHRQ Stats

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Acording to data from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), hospital stays for teen pregnancy, delivery, and post-delivery care decreased 47 percent from 2000 to 2012, from 196,200 stays to 104,700 stays over the 12-year time period. (Source: AHRQ, Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project Statistical Brief #187:Overview of Hospital Stays for Children in the United States, 2012.)

Go to: http://www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/sb187-Hospital-Stays-Children-2012.jsp