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Hospital use in France and the United States
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January 1989
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Source: Vital and health statistics. Series 5, Comparative international vital and health statistics reports ; no. 4
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Description:This report presents national statistics on hospital use from the U.S. National Hospital Discharge Survey conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics and the national survey of hospitalization conducted by CREDES, Centre de Recherche d’Etude et de Documentation en Economic de la Sante, previously the Medical Economics Diwsion of CREDOC. The use statistics compared between the two countries Include rates and percent distributions of discharges and days of care#md average lengths of stay. These statistics are shown by sex, age, diagnostic category, and other hospital and patient characteristics. The similarities and differences between the two countries in population characteristics, causes of death, health care systems, and hospital systems are also described.
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Content Notes:by Lola Jean Kozak and Eileen McCarthy, Division of Health Care Statistics, National Center for Health Statistics, and Andrée Mizrahi, Arié Mizrahi,and Simone Sandier, Centre de recherche d'étude et de documentation en économie de la santé.
Bibliography: p. 45-46.
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Pages in Document:print; v, 80 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
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