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Broad measures of Americans’ health care utilization well below typical: Utilization of physicians and hospitals across the OECD
| OECD max | OECD min | U.S. = 1 | OECD median | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ||||
| Physicians | 3.23 | 0.73 | 1 | 1.63 |
| Hospital | 2.00 | 0.66 | 1 | 1.30 |
| 1 |
Note: For physician services, the utilization measure is physician visits normalized by population. For hospital services, the utilization measure is hospital discharges normalized by population. U.S. levels are set at 1 and the other measures are indices relative to the U.S. As described in Squires (2015), the data represent either 2013 or the nearest year available in the data. For the U.S., the data are from 2010.
Source: Data from Squires 2015.
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