Hoogendoorn D
Landelijke Medische Registratie-Stichting Informatiecentrum voor de Gezondheidszorg, Utrecht.
Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd. 1990 Oct 13;134(41):2000-2.
The mean cost of the hospital admission has increased considerably in the last 12 years, to an amount of Dfl. 7,415,- in 1988. However, if the greying of the patient population is taken into account (the elderly on average stay long in hospital), together with the devaluation of the guilder, a clear rise of the mean costs per hospitalization is no longer demonstrable. On the contrary, there is firm evidence to support the view that the cost per hospitalization has actually been decreasing since 1982, the last year before the beginning of budgeting. In addition, a very large amount has been saved due to a considerable decrease of the number of admissions.
在过去12年中，住院的平均费用大幅增加，到1988年达到了7415荷兰盾。然而，如果考虑到患者群体的老龄化（老年人平均住院时间较长），再加上荷兰盾的贬值，那么每次住院平均费用的明显上升就不再明显了。相反，有确凿的证据支持这样一种观点，即自1982年（预算开始前的最后一年）以来，每次住院的费用实际上一直在下降。此外，由于住院人数大幅减少，节省了大量资金。
