Health Affairs · 1988 · 43 citations · 1 references
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Every quarter since Fall 1984, Health Affairs has reported trends in one of four significant sectors of the health sphere. We are changing this policy for several reasons. Often trends change so gradually that there is little new information to transmit every year. Also, interesting data on a wider variety of subjects continually become available, which we wish to present to readers shortly after the data are released. We will continue our annual DataWatch on national medical care spending. However, it will be published in Winter 1988 rather than Fall, became the data on which it is largely based will become available later than usual. This issue features DataWatches on international health spending trends; on whether the United States is containing health care costs; on anesthesia practice patterns; and on controlling Medicaid costs in hospitals.
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