Hospital competition, resource allocation and quality of care.
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SUBMITTER: Mukamel DB
PROVIDER: S-EPMC116588 | biostudies-literature | 2002 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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Hospital competition, resource allocation and quality of care.
Mukamel Dana B DB Zwanziger Jack J Bamezai Anil A
BMC health services research 20020527 1
<h4>Background</h4>A variety of approaches have been used to contain escalating hospital costs. One approach is intensifying price competition. The increase in price based competition, which changes the incentives hospitals face, coupled with the fact that consumers can more easily evaluate the quality of hotel services compared with the quality of clinical care, may lead hospitals to allocate more resources into hotel rather than clinical services.<h4>Methods</h4>To test this hypothesis we stud ...[more]
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