Includes information on forms of health insurance, medical care costs, utilization of medical facilities, and national morbidity trends. Data is from insurance companies, government agencies, hospital and medical associations and other health insurance plans. Sources of information are given but sometimes are too abbreviated to find easily. There is a table of contents and an index.

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100
H434s
1990

Physician Socioeconomic Statistics

Formerly titled "Socioeconomic Characteristics of Medical Practice", this annual has 2 sections. The first has articles with some statistics. The detailed statistics section has tables on: weeks and hours of practice, utilization of physician services, fees for visits, professional expenses of physicians, physician net income.

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84
S678

NIH Data Book

Our most recent issue of this annual is from 1986. Most data covers grants and contracts from the National Institute of Health. There is some information on non-NIH support for health. And there are summarized mortality and morbidity tables in back. The index is brief.

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20.5
N277
1986

Costs of Illness: United States, 1980

Gives direct and indirect costs for individuals by age, sex, education, and poverty status. Both direct and indirect costs for services (e.g. physician services, hospital services, prescribed medications) by age, sex and race. Data is given for general medical categories such as circulatory, digestive, etc.

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74
C8385
1986

The Medicare DRG Handbook: Comparative Clinical and Financial Standards

Gives average charges per discharge and length of stay for the 50 highest volume DRG diagnoses.

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WX
157
M489
1991

Physicians Fee and Coding Guide

Gives predictive fees based on research and analysis by Healthcare Consultants. Uses CPT codes. Fee ranges are given for procedures. Resource based relative value scale (procedures) is given for Medicare when available. Updated annually.

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58
P578

Hospital Salary Survey Report

This annual publication gives data for 9 US. regions. Salaries for hospital management, nursing, professional and technical positions are given. Information on the survey methodology is given in the back.

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WX
159
H828
1991/1992

Compensation Report on Hospital-Based Physicians

Salaries and other compensation is presented for specialties, regions, bed size, control of hospital, and type of facility.

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79
C737
1990-1991

Acute Case Hospital Charges by Diagnosis

The average charge, average length of stay, and number of cases in 1986 for the 25 most common diagnosis are given for 22 Kansas City area hospitals. Comments from most of the hospitals are given in an appendix.

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WX
157
A189
1986

Socio-Economic Factbook for Surgery

Published every other year. A large amount of data on the practice of surgery including education, manpower, managed care and other insurance programs, economics, use of services, etc. Sources of information are given.

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WO
100
A512so

Statistical Record of Health & Medicine

Arsen J. Darnay, Editor

This book provides statistics on : health status and lifestyle of Americans; health care establishments; health care programs; medical professions; politics, opinions, and law; medical practices and procedures; health care costs; and international rankings and comparisons. Data gathered from approximately 300 sources including the U.S. federal government, newspapers, business periodicals, trade magazines, association publications, and others. The source is listed for each set of statistics. The Keyword Index is cross-referenced for easy access.

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WA
16
S797
1998

Health Care Financing Review

This journal has articles and statistics on cost, prices, Medicaid and Medicare, health care indicators and other aspects of health care financing. A. R. Dykes Library has issues from 1979-1992.

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