Hospital Use in Poland and the United States

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• Personal Author:
  Bacon, Edward W. ; Kozak, Lola Jean ; Krzyżanowski, Michał ; Wojtyniak, Bogdan
• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.) ; Państwowy Zakład Higieny (Poland). Zakład Statystiki Medycznej.
• Description:
  This report presents national statistics on hospital use from the U.S. National Hospital Discharge Survey and the Polish General Hospital Morbidity Study. Comparisons are made of discharge rates, average lengths of stay, rates of patient care days, and fatality rates by sex, age, and diagnostic category. The similarities and differences between the two countries in population characteristics, health status, health services systems, and health care resources are also described.
  
  by Lola Jean Kozak and W. Edward Bacon, Division of Health Care Statistics, US. Nationai Center for Heaith Statistics, and Michal Krzyzanowski and Bogdan Wojtyniak, Department of Medical Statistics, Polish National Institute of Hygiene.
  
  Also available via the World Wide Web.
  
  Bibliography: p. 42-43.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Hospitals/utilization
• Series:
  Vital and Health Statistics
• Document Type:
  Journal Issue
• Genre:
  Statistics
• Place as Subject:
  Poland ; United States
• Pages in Document:
  print; v, 80 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
• Volume:
  5
• Issue:
  2
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:87231b2c406a392f282fe87d36c33f7a720cdf84e75eb8699595fa27e23e71d4af5aaa132d3cba5c6a07444227aa07182f7580d9f3465236caf66b3343e44b45
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/11194/cdc_11194_DS1.pdf
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