U.S. Infant Hospitalizations and Deaths for Selected Birth Defects, 2003

Approximately 20% of total infant deaths in the United States are accounted for by birth defects. This dataset contains estimated numbers of hospitalizations and in-hospital deaths associated with selected birth defects, including diaphragmatic hernia, renal agenesis, and trisomy 18, for the year 2003. It was sourced from paperswithcode and includes confidence intervals for the estimates.

Use Cases

• Ranking birth defects by associated mortality based on the reported leading causes of in-hospital death.
• Estimating hospitalization burden for specific congenital anomalies using the provided hospitalization numbers.
• Analyzing the relationship between birth defect type and in-hospital mortality rate as indicated in the description.

Strengths

• Focuses on a specific public health issue with a cited statistic (birth defects account for ~20% of infant deaths).
• Identifies the three leading birth defects for both neonatal hospitalization deaths and in-hospital mortality rate.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

paperswithcode

Collection Method

Likely compiled from hospital discharge and mortality records.

Time Range

2003

Freshness

Data is from 2003; no update information provided.

Geography

United States