Table 6. Illustrations of Volume of Care in the 8 European Sample Countries .

	NL	BE	GE a	FR	UK b	SWE	SWI
Inpatient care discharges per 100 000 citizens per yearc	11 646	16 624	24 417	18 641	13 709	16 449	17 055
MRI-scans per 1000 citizens per year	49.9	77.0	95.2	67.5	-	-	-
CT scans per 1000 citizens per year	70.7	178.5	117.1	154.5	-	-	-
Surgical procedures per 100 000 citizens per year
Cataract surgery	856.6	1060.1	168.4	1077.6	664.7	848.1	437.7
Hip replacement	215.7	235.6	285.9	229.5	180.9	237.9	292.0
Coronary artery bypass	54.4	70.4	67.6 v28.5	31.0	37.5	49.4
Doctor consultations per citizen per year	6.6	7.4	9.7	6.8	5.0	3.0	4.0
Dentist consultations per citizen per year	2.3	2.5	1.4	0.8	0.8	-	1.2

Abbreviations: NL, the Netherlands, BE, Belgium; GE, Germany; ENG, England; FR, France; SC, Scotland; SWE, Sweden; SWI, Switzerland.

^a Additional data on the ambulatory care sector is not counted in these statistics. Additionally, only one code per procedure category per patient was counted.

^b Separate data for England and Scotland is lacking.

^c The number of patients that stayed in hospital at least one night.

Source: OECD Health Data 2013.31 Only the most recent data was used.