医疗保健行业的医院、就业及价格指标：1999年第一季度

Seifert M L, Heffler S K, Donham C S

Office of Strategic Planning, Health Care Financing Administration, Baltimore, MD 21244-1850, USA.

Health Care Financ Rev. 1999 Fall;21(1):79-122.

This feature presents highlights from statistics on health care utilization, prices, expenses, employment, and work hours, as well as on national economic activity, with brief analysis of these economic indicators. These statistics provide an early indication of changes occurring in the health care sector and within the general economy. Although most data are for the first quarter of 1999, American Hospital Association data (Tables 1 and 2) refer to the third quarter of 1998.

本专题展示了医疗保健利用、价格、费用、就业和工作时长以及国民经济活动方面的统计亮点，并对这些经济指标进行了简要分析。这些统计数据为医疗保健行业和整体经济中正在发生的变化提供了早期迹象。尽管大多数数据是1999年第一季度的，但美国医院协会的数据（表1和表2）指的是1998年第三季度。