title: A statistical snapshot of health care.
abstract: More Americans get hospice care at the end of life. Hospitalist numbers surge. The need for new knees doubles in a decade.
mesh_terms: D019645:Arthroplasty, Replacement, Knee / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D017051:Hospice Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006739:Hospital Administration / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D020445:Hospitalists / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D009765:Obesity / Q000453:epidemiology; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology