title: [Admissions and bed occupancy at the hospital before and after the beginning of budgeting; a dance of billions].
abstract: Hospital budgeting was enacted in 1983 and led to a spectacular decrease of hospital admissions. Admissions of elderly patients were an exception, however; progress in medicine results in ever-increasing possibilities of adequate treatment for this group. The shortening of the average hospital stay, evident since a number of years, continued unchanged after 1982. Taking into account the greying of the patients, the number of hospital days per 100 of the population has decreased by 20% between 1982 and 1987. This descending curve grows increasingly steep. The evolution outlined has probably resulted in a 10-figure reduction.
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authors.lastname: Hoogendoorn
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001509:Bed Occupancy; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003363:Cost Control; D004469:Economics, Hospital; D006801:Humans; D007902:Length of Stay; D008875:Middle Aged; D009426:Netherlands; D010343:Patient Admission
vernacular_title: Opnamen en bedgebruik in het ziekenhuis voor en na het begin van de budgettering; een miljardendans.