{"id":7088,"date":"2007-05-17T17:25:19","date_gmt":"2007-05-17T17:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchspressroom.wordpress.com\/2007\/05\/17\/childhood-surgery\/"},"modified":"2007-05-17T17:25:19","modified_gmt":"2007-05-17T17:25:19","slug":"childhood-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2007\/05\/17\/7088\/","title":{"rendered":"Childhood Surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The question was raised concerning the number of children who undergo surgery.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Our best source for this is our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/about\/major\/hdasd\/nhdsdes.htm\">National Hospital Discharge Survey<\/a>. Our<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/ad\/ad371.pdf\"> most recent publication<\/a> from this survey indicated some 2,310,000 surgical procedures were performed on patients under 15 years of age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The question was raised concerning the number of children who undergo surgery. \u00a0Our best source for this is our National Hospital Discharge Survey. Our most recent publication from this survey indicated some 2,310,000 surgical procedures were performed on patients under 15 years of age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14289,62349,63685,63777],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7088"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}