TY  - JOUR
T1  - HOspital service in the united states
Y1  - 1949/05/07
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1949.02900360114012
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 112
EP  - 113
VL  - 140
IS  - 1
N2  - The annual hospital report of the Council on Medical Education and Hospitals published in this issue of The Journal shows a new high in the utilization of hospital service in continental United States. The present bed capacity of 1,423,520 and the average daily census of 1,217,154 are nearly identical with the previous report, but the total of 16,422,772 admissions in 1948 represents an increase of 593,260 in the last year and exceeds also the earlier record of 16,257,402 in 1945. While increases occurred in both the governmental and the nongovernmental divisions, the expansion was not uniform throughout the hospital field. The federal hospitals, for example, reported a reduction of about 100,000 admissions, and the hospitals under "individual and partnership" control 33,000; yet the governmental institutions as a group had a net increase of 86,147 and the nongovernmental hospitals 507,113. The admissions, as here reported, do not include hospital births, which
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1949.02900360114012
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1949.02900360114012
ER  -