TY  - JOUR
T1  - PErsonal consumption expenditures, 1947-1957 -new series versus old series
AU  - Martin LW
Y1  - 1959/02/07
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1959.73000230008015
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 608
EP  - 615
VL  - 169
IS  - 6
N2  - Revisions of its personal consumption expenditures series, made recently by the United States Department of Commerce, are now in press and will appear in a forthcoming National Income Supplement. Since the revisions go back about 11 years, this report, which they triggered, must be twofold in scope. A comparison of the old and revised data to reveal where the impact of the revisions has been greatest will be followed by a review of trends not only to see what they are but how the revisions altered or sustained them. When all the smoke is cleared away it will readily be seen that the consumption of medical care has increased substantially in the last decade. Yet the rises have been uneven, being great for hospitals and drugs while slight for dentists, physicians, and "all other" medical care. Apparently the demand for physicians' services, in a significant relative sense, has been quite
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1959.73000230008015
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1959.73000230008015
ER  -