Trends in hospital utilization, 1965-86.

Trends in hospital labor and total factor productivity, 1981-86

The per-case payment rates of Medicare's prospective payment system are annually updated. As one element of the update factor, Congress required consideration of changes in hospital productivity. In this article, calculations of annual changes in labor and total factor productivity during 1981-86 of hospitals eligible for prospective payment are presented using several output and input variants...

[Trends in antimicrobial utilization in a university hospital, 1990-1996].

OBJECTIVE There is a worldwide concern about rational drug use, more specifically related to antimicrobial utilization. In developing countries, few resources are intended for monitoring on rational drug use. Moreover, there are limited data on the use of antimicrobial agents in hospitals. A study was carried out to describe patterns of use of antimicrobial agents over a 7-year period (1990 to ...

Trends in hospital utilization, 1982-83 to 1992-93.

Trends in hospital emergency department utilization: United States, 1992-99.

OBJECTIVES This report describes trends in hospital emergency department (ED) visits in the United States. Statistics are presented for overall utilization, case mix of patients, services provided, and outcome measures. METHODS The data presented in this report were collected from the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NHAMCS) from 1992 through 1999. To make the data points mor...

Medicare physician and hospital utilization and expenditure trends

During the period 1983-86, the period directly following implementation of the Medicare prospective payment system, inpatient hospital care declined. Concurrently, fee-for-service utilization rates for physicians and other noninstitutional suppliers of medical goods and services and for outpatient facility care rose. Medicare expenditures for physicians and other suppliers and for outpatient fa...