Regionalization of surgical services

O.L. Peterson and B.S. Bloom

American Journal of Public Health, 1983, vol. 73, issue 2, 179-183

Abstract: Using data from the Studies on Surgical Services for the United States (SOSSUS), the extent of existing surgical care regionalization was examined in a defined area. Specialist comprised 55 per cent of all physicians who did operations, but performed nearly three-fourths of all operative work. About one-third of the most complex operations (CRV ≥ 30), more than one-fifth of medium complexity (CRV = 20-29), and 14 per cent of low complexity (CRV

Date: 1983
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