PEDIATRICS Vol. 83 No. 4 April 1989, pp. 552
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Outpatient visits to hospitals were up 7.1 percent earlier this year [1988]. The number of visits to doctors tests and diagnostic procedures have exploded . . . Any savings from controlling costs in hospitals has been more than wiped out by the growth in other types of care.