title: Classification of community hospitals.
abstract: This articles describes the methodology, results, and potential applications of a study conducted by the authors to classify the nation's community hospitals. The classification system is offered as a preferable alternative to the system presently used by the Social Security Administration to implement Section 223 of the Social Security Amendments of 1972 (P.L. 92-603).
mesh_terms: D006764:Hospitals, Community / Q000145:classification*; D011366:Professional Review Organizations; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D014481:United States