The Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care 1998

By Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences, Dartmouth Medical School, The Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences

This acclaimed reference resource incorporates all the information from the original edition, supplementing it with state-of-the-art, updated statistics and entirely new material never included in any of the previous editions. Revised measures of hospital resources per capita and of Medicare reimbursements per enrolee have been incorporated throughout. Detailed data tables present the variations in surgical rates for common procedures, measure the per capita physician workforce, and rate health care resources, utilization, and reimbursements by hospital referral regions. New to the Second Edition are: an expanded analysis of regional variations in surgical rates; a detailed investigation of the relationships between practice style and hospital capacity; and an in-depth exploration of the relationship between spending and health. A new chapter on the American experience of death includes discussions of unexpected variations in death rates among different regions of the U.S. For the first time, this edition features a comparison of the physician workforce distribution to physician staffing in a large HMO. The 1998 edition also features a five-color interior, over 200 color-coded maps, and floppy disks containing tabular data about the 306 referral regions.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1556482175
• ISBN13: 9781556482175
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 300.00 lbs.