0 a place where people who are ill or injured are treated and taken care of by doctors and nurses: --
1 a place where people who are very ill or injured are treated by doctors and nurses: --
The cost for visits to hospitals represented the largest share of outpatient care.
Subsequently, patients receive ongoing medical care based on regular outpatient visits, and that care may include periods of readmission to the hospital.
During selected 24-hr sampling periods in 1991, 8,986 women giving birth were visited in the hospital.
This led to active lobbying for patient choice of these hospitals.
There are also suggestions to integrate the fee-for-service payment system for hospital doctors with the hospital budget (cf., infra).
We did not account for training hospital staff because the unit price estimates of hospitals included training costs.
We know of only three studies that examine the relationship between market concentration and price for a specific procedure at a hospital.
Part of hospitals' revenues was then made dependent upon the number of patients treated and the patient mix.
