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