1. Health Care Systems in Twenty-Four Countries
2. Health Care Systems in Twenty-Four Countries
3. For a detailed discussion of these measures as well as the need to interpret some of them in the context of the base-year spending level, see
Schieber
,
et al.
,
“U. S. Health Expenditure Performance.”
4. For definitions of the terms see
Schieber
,
et al.
,
“Health Care Systems in Twenty-Four Countries;”
and
OECD
Health Systems: Facts and Trends
. Employees per bed includes all categories of staff salaried by hospitals, including medical personnel, aggregated to a full-time-equivalent (FTE) level. As in all areas of international comparisons, variability in aggregation and weighting exists, and the volume of contracted services varies across countries as does the scope of inpatient services
.