THIS REGULAR FEATURE OF THE JOURNAL INCLUDES A DISCUSSION OF EACH OF THE FOLLOWING FOUR TOPICS: community hospital statistics; employment, hours, and earnings in the private health sector; health care prices; and national economic indicators. These statistics are valuable in their own right for understanding the relationship between the health care sector and the overall economy. In addition, t...

DOI: 10.1373/clinchem.2004.037309 Estimate of Biological Variation of Laboratory Analytes Based on the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, David A. Lacher, Jeffery P. Hughes, and Margaret D. Carroll (Division of Health and Nutritional Examination Surveys, National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Hyattsville, MD; * address corresponde...

Department of Statistics, University of Washington Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences (CSSS), University of Washington Department of Sociology, University of Washington Institute of Behavioral Science (IBS), University of Colorado at Boulder MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University o...

The value of a health state is typically described relative to the value of an optimal state, specifically as a ratio ranging from unity (equal to optimal health) to negative infinity. Incorporating potentially infinite values is a challenging issue in the econometrics of health valuation. In this paper, we apply a directional statistics approach based on the assumption of wavering preference. ...

This report presents national statistics on hospital use from the U.S. National Hospital Discharge Survey conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics and the national survey of hospitalization conducted by CREDES, Centre de Recherche d'Etude et de Documentation en Economie de la Santé, previously the Medical Economics Division of CREDOC. The use statistics compared between the two co...