Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Special Committee on Aging, Parts 1-3U.S. Government Printing Office, 1967 |
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... profession . Now as to question # 5 , on physician assistants , even before the advent of Medicare the rapid growth of population , increasing affluence and rising expecta- tions increased demands for medical care . The Department of ...
... profession . Now as to question # 5 , on physician assistants , even before the advent of Medicare the rapid growth of population , increasing affluence and rising expecta- tions increased demands for medical care . The Department of ...
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... issue of Medical Economics was written as a warning to my associates in the medical profession . I was 7 See p . 49 . and am afraid that doctors are going to take advantage 36 COSTS OF HEALTH SERVICES TO OLDER AMERICANS.
... issue of Medical Economics was written as a warning to my associates in the medical profession . I was 7 See p . 49 . and am afraid that doctors are going to take advantage 36 COSTS OF HEALTH SERVICES TO OLDER AMERICANS.
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... profession ? From personal experience and my exposure to medical practices in various places . When I was at Bellevue Hospital in New York City , as an intern and resident in surgery , I never worried about the expense incurred in ...
... profession ? From personal experience and my exposure to medical practices in various places . When I was at Bellevue Hospital in New York City , as an intern and resident in surgery , I never worried about the expense incurred in ...
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... profession was not being ade- quately compensated for the care it did provide , now the pendulum has swung the other way . The medicare patients are being overhospitalized and overtreated and , correspondingly , the medical profession ...
... profession was not being ade- quately compensated for the care it did provide , now the pendulum has swung the other way . The medicare patients are being overhospitalized and overtreated and , correspondingly , the medical profession ...
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United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging. medical profession is being overcompensated . I think that is a very important statement . Do you agree that if the Members of the Congress finally come to this conclusion , as ...
United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging. medical profession is being overcompensated . I think that is a very important statement . Do you agree that if the Members of the Congress finally come to this conclusion , as ...
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Page 614 - For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
Page 457 - In a joint effort, the Office of Economic Opportunity and the Department of Health, Education and Welfare...
Page 209 - Smith observed that the division of labor is limited by the extent of the market.
Page 189 - ... by less than the standard error. The chances are about 95 out of 100 that the difference would be less than twice the standard error. The...
Page 188 - The standard error is primarily a measure of sampling variability, that is, of the variations that occur by chance because a sample rather than the whole of the population is surveyed. As calculated for this report, the standard error also partially measures the effect of response and enumeration errors, but it does not measure as such, any systematic biases in the data.
Page 188 - Reliability of the Estimates. Since the estimates are based on a sample, they may differ somewhat from the figures that would have been obtained if a complete census had been taken using the same schedules, instructions and enumerators.
Page 197 - ... 12-18% in blood grouping and typing; by 20-30% in hemoglobin measurements; by 40-80% in differential characterization of blood cells; and by 2030% in measurement of serum electrolytes. There also exists considerable variation In results from laboratory to laboratory. This information imlicutes that erroneous results are obtained in more than 25% of all tests analyzed by these studies.
Page 370 - American patent system and the need for legislative reform to eliminate the opportunity for misusing patents, stated: "* * * but we must be careful not to throw out the baby with the bath water.
Page 332 - Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in cooperation with the Department of Defense and the Veterans...
Page 189 - The memory factor in data derived from field surveys of income probably produces underestimates, because the tendency is to forget minor or irregular sources of income. Other errors of reporting are due to misrepresentation or to misunderstanding as to the scope of the income concept.