ABSTRACT
This analysis draws on reports from Belgium, Italy, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United Kingdom (Anxo and Nyman 2000; Piovesan 2000; Plantenga and Remery 2000; Plasman and Lumen 2000; Rubery et al. 2000; Villa and Zeni 2000). To compare the situations observed in the six countries investigated, certain methodological choices had to be made, both from the point of view of the population studied-that is, individual hospitals-and of the data-gathering process itself.
