title: AHA survey reveals hospitals continue to keep costs low.
abstract: DATA BENCHMARKS: Good news on the hospital cost front for 1997: Hospitals and health systems continued their three-year pace of keeping costs down, according to the American Hospital Association's annual survey of more than 5,000 hospitals and health systems. Find out what the survey results revealed.
mesh_terms: D000573:American Hospital Association; D019985:Benchmarking; D003363:Cost Control; D003625:Data Collection; D004469:Economics, Hospital / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005377:Financial Management, Hospital / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D017721:Hospital Costs / Q000706:statistics & numerical data* / Q000639:trends; D006764:Hospitals, Community / Q000191:economics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D007182:Income / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006278:Medicare / Q000191:economics; D014481:United States