{"title":"The health care industry: current issues and concerns.","authors":"T E Terrill","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In order to meet growing demands for health service with improved access, cost controls, and increased productivity, it will be necessary to reorder the current system of providing these services. It should be remembered that: (1) Health must remain high on the scale of social, political, and economic priorities. (2) New money alone will not guarantee either capacity or effectiveness of the current health system. (3) Health care is too often delivered at the time and place and in a way convenient to the provider rather than the consumer. (4) Man power production for the health industry must adapt new modes of training and licensure in order to provide more flexible use of valuable human resources. (5) Resourse allocation should be the central responsibility of areawide and state comprehensive health planning agencies. (6) The consumer must play a stronger role in decision making and be provided a greater range of choices among alternative forms of health services. This decision-making power together with enough information to make the purchase of health care a maningful decision may lead to some new questions pertaining to health care.</p>","PeriodicalId":75711,"journal":{"name":"Clinical anesthesia","volume":"10 3","pages":"33-47"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1974-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"15713245","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Surgical and anesthesia workloads in the United States and abroad.","authors":"J P Bunker","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75711,"journal":{"name":"Clinical anesthesia","volume":"10 3","pages":"205-17"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1974-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"15547108","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Thiobarbiturates in obstetric anesthesia.","authors":"M Finster, L C Mark","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75711,"journal":{"name":"Clinical anesthesia","volume":"10 2","pages":"163-72"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1974-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"15691474","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Anesthesia mortality.","authors":"O C Phillips, L S Capizzi","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Since the first report in 1846 on the use of anesthesia for a surgical procedure, deaths have occurred with practically every agent and technique used. Those mishaps of which we are aware are probably just a small segment of those that have actually occurred, since presently there is no widely used method for identifying anesthesia-associated deaths. Several sources of information are available, including the United States National Center for Health Statistics and articles in the medical literature. Neither of these encompasses more than a fraction of the total experience; in addition, the population upon which most reports are based and the number of anesthesias involved are usually not available as a denominator in determining the incidence of mishaps and the magnitude of the problem. Extrapolating from data from community anesthesia study committees and from population and operative figures, we can estimate that there are over 5,000 deaths associated with anesthesia in this country each year. This is 3 times as many as are caused by muscular dystrophy and multiple sclerosis, 15 times as many as with sickle cell anemia, 20 times as many as with myasthenia gravis and 40 times as many with poliomyelitis. We thus must recognize that anesthesia is an iatrogenic disease that deserves serious attention as a public health problem.</p>","PeriodicalId":75711,"journal":{"name":"Clinical anesthesia","volume":"10 3","pages":"220-44"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1974-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"15713242","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The role of the dentist in anesthesiology.","authors":"C R Bennett","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75711,"journal":{"name":"Clinical anesthesia","volume":"10 3","pages":"293-302"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1974-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"15713244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}