Wiley M M
Health Policy Research Centre, Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin, Ireland.
World Hosp Health Serv. 1996;32(1):5-13.
As the costliness of the acute hospital sector is of critical importance to the demands on the health sector as a whole, this paper presents an assessment of the trends in expenditure and utilization of this service area for selected OECD countries since the early 1980's. This analysis shows that despite reductions in bed availability and lengths of stay, admission rates and expenditures have generally been increasing over the period. As the continuing rise in expenditure levels is cause for growing concern at the individual country level, the reform of the financing of the acute hospital sector has become a more urgent priority.
由于急症医院部门的成本对于整个卫生部门的需求至关重要，本文对自20世纪80年代初以来部分经合组织国家这一服务领域的支出和利用趋势进行了评估。分析表明，尽管病床供应和住院时间有所减少，但在此期间，住院率和支出总体上一直在上升。由于支出水平的持续上升在个别国家层面引发了越来越多的关注，急症医院部门的融资改革已成为更为紧迫的优先事项。
