OECD Regions at a Glance 2007
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Health resources: hospital beds
The number of hospital beds usually provides a measure of the resources available for delivering health services in hospitals. It does not, however, provide a comprehensive measure of capacity since it does not capture the capacity of hospitals to furnish services for nonadmitted patients (e.g. outpatient consultations, day care and ambulatory surgery). Nor is it a measure of physical accessibility to hospital health services. In fact, a region may have a large number of hospital beds but accessibility may be low if the hospital is located far from the population.
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