Strategies for more efficient performance through hospital merger

Health Care Manage Rev. 2002 Winter;27(1):33-49. doi: 10.1097/00004010-200201000-00004.

Abstract

This article compares the operating performance of merged and non-merged local hospitals during the late 1980s and early 1990s, a period not unlike that being experienced in hospitals today. A matched case-control design is employed to create "synthetically" merged hospitals--to represent them as if they had effected a merger--and compares their performance to a group of similar hospitals that did merge.

Publication types

  • Comparative Study

MeSH terms

  • American Hospital Association
  • Bed Occupancy / statistics & numerical data
  • Case-Control Studies
  • Data Collection
  • Efficiency, Organizational / classification
  • Efficiency, Organizational / statistics & numerical data*
  • Financial Management, Hospital / methods
  • Health Facility Merger / economics
  • Health Facility Merger / organization & administration*
  • Health Services Research / methods
  • Hospital Planning / economics
  • Hospital Planning / methods
  • Humans
  • Personnel Staffing and Scheduling / statistics & numerical data
  • Planning Techniques
  • United States