Press release No. 276 of 14 August 2017
WIESBADEN – In 2016, roughly 19.5 million people received in-patient treatment in hospitals. These were 277,400 treatment cases more (+1.4%) than a year earlier. Based on provisional results, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that, as in the previous year, the average length of stay in hospital was 7.3 days.