Abstract
Using data from hospitals in ten states, this study examines the effects of organizational and market factors on the likelihood of becoming high-quality/low-cost providers during the period of 1997-2001. The findings highlight the important role of previous performance, internal operations, and market competition in hospital performance improvement. Achieving high-quality/low-cost performance is also incidentally found to be associated with improved profit margins.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 188-196 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | Health Care Management Review |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2006 |
Keywords
- Cost
- Hospital operation
- Hospital performance
- Market forces
- Quality