Regional variations in hospital use
Subtitle: geographic and temporal patterns of care in the United States
By: edited by David L. Rothberg.
Contributors: Rothberg, David L.
Series: University Health Policy Consortium series
Publisher: LexingtonBooks
Published: 1982
Place of publication: Lexington, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
Subjects: Hospital utilization -- United States.; Delivery of health care -- United States.; Hospitals -- Utilization -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Regional variations in hospital use / David L. Rothberg; title: Variations in hospital use across cities / James R. Knickman; title: Measuring community-hospital services in Michigan / John R. Griffith ... [et al.]; title: On the comparison of highest and lowest surgery rates in small-area studies / Thomas R. Willemain; title: Variations in surgery rates and the supply of surgeons / Janet B. Mitchell and Jerry Cromwell; title: Trends and regional variations in hospital use under medicare / Marian Gornick; title: Population-based small-unit analysis of health care / Benjamin A. Barnes; title: Health statistics based on discrete population groups / Thomas A. Louis and Rebecca DerSimonian; title: Variations in hospital use, inappropriate use, and public-policy consequences / David E. Berman and Paul M. Gertman.