Ost, John; Straus, Murray A. - In: Social Science & Medicine 25 (1987) 1, pp. 75-87
This paper: (1) describes the development of a 'hospital technology index' to measure the level of capital intensive medical technology in each of the 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia, (2) reports differences between states in scores on this index, and (3) tests the hypothesis that...