Add to ORKGMedicare program data on utilization and charges for short-stay hospital inpatient services are presented. The focus of this article is on trends in total and surgical discharges for selected years (1977-87) and highlights of regional variations in the most frequently reported (leading) surgical procedures performed on aged Medicare hospital insurance beneficiaries during 1987
Statistics on proportion of surgical bill paid by insurance and interval of stay for surgical patien...
BACKGROUND: Differences in the use of major procedures according to patients' race are well known. W...
Investigation into the medical care utilization of elderly Medicare enrollees in an HMO (Kaiser - Po...
Out of the universe of 6,965 hospitals, 413 hospitals participated during all or part of the 1968 da...
OBJECTIVES: We analyzed Medicare data to determine the influence of age, mortality during the study ...
Hospital length of stay (LOS) declined steadily during the 1970s, then rapidly during the early year...
Objectives This study documents trends in risk-adjusted quality and cost for a variety of inpatient ...
Relative to outpatient surgery in hospital settings, ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) are more effi...
In this article, data are presented on trends in the use of and program payments for inpatient short...
OBJECTIVES: To estimate trends over time in inpatient obstetric and gynecologic surgical procedures,...
BackgroundSurgical site infections (SSIs) following vascular surgery have high morbidity and costs, ...
AbstractObjectiveTo help understand past and future trends in vascular intervention, we examined cha...
Hypothesis: Surgery at different outpatient care locations in the higher-risk elderly (age >65 years...
Presents estimates of surgical and nonsurgical procedures performed in the United States during 1995...
Over the past 10 years there have been dramatic changes in health care financing in the United State...
Statistics on proportion of surgical bill paid by insurance and interval of stay for surgical patien...
BACKGROUND: Differences in the use of major procedures according to patients' race are well known. W...
Investigation into the medical care utilization of elderly Medicare enrollees in an HMO (Kaiser - Po...
Out of the universe of 6,965 hospitals, 413 hospitals participated during all or part of the 1968 da...
OBJECTIVES: We analyzed Medicare data to determine the influence of age, mortality during the study ...
Hospital length of stay (LOS) declined steadily during the 1970s, then rapidly during the early year...
Objectives This study documents trends in risk-adjusted quality and cost for a variety of inpatient ...
Relative to outpatient surgery in hospital settings, ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) are more effi...
In this article, data are presented on trends in the use of and program payments for inpatient short...
OBJECTIVES: To estimate trends over time in inpatient obstetric and gynecologic surgical procedures,...
BackgroundSurgical site infections (SSIs) following vascular surgery have high morbidity and costs, ...
AbstractObjectiveTo help understand past and future trends in vascular intervention, we examined cha...
Hypothesis: Surgery at different outpatient care locations in the higher-risk elderly (age >65 years...
Presents estimates of surgical and nonsurgical procedures performed in the United States during 1995...
Over the past 10 years there have been dramatic changes in health care financing in the United State...
Statistics on proportion of surgical bill paid by insurance and interval of stay for surgical patien...
BACKGROUND: Differences in the use of major procedures according to patients' race are well known. W...
Investigation into the medical care utilization of elderly Medicare enrollees in an HMO (Kaiser - Po...