American College of Surgeons. This small annual publication presents a variety of statistics relating to the practice of surgery. It includes a section on surgical manpower, which lists the numbers of physicians in various surgical specialties. Other sections give the number of organ transplants, data on Medicare and Medicaid, and statistics on medical education. Original sources of the data are cited.
Articles contain statistics of interest to the health insurance industry.
These cover costs and utilization of specific medical procedures, trends in morbidity and studies of length of stay. Statistical Abstract of the United States . U.S. Department of Commerce, 1878- . This annual publication presents tables on health care expenditures, diseases, health facilities, health care personnel, and nutrition. Over 100 tables are given in the Vital Statistics and Health and Nutrition sections of the 1993 edition.