Changing Hospital Industry : Comparing Not-For-Profit and For-Profit Institutions

Cutler, David M. (EDT)

ISBN 10: 0226132196 / ISBN 13: 9780226132198

Editore: University of Chicago Press, 2000

Codice articolo 642680-n

Riassunto:

In recent years, the hospital industry has been undergoing massive change and reorganization with technological innovations and the spread of managed care. As a result, the total number of hospitals countrywide has been declining, and a growing number of not-for-profit hospitals have converted to for-profit status. These changes raise two fundamental questions: What determines a hospital's choice of for-profit or not-for-profit organizational form? And how does that form affect patients and society?

This timely volume provides a factual basis for discussing for-profit versus not-for-profit ownership of hospitals and gives a first look at the evidence about new and important issues in the hospital industry. The Changing Hospital Industry: Comparing Not-for-Profit and For-Profit Institutions will have significant implications for public-policy reforms in this vital industry and will be of great interest to scholars in the fields of health economics, public finance, hospital organization, and management; and to health services researchers.

Informazioni sull'autore:

David M. Cutler is a professor of economics at Harvard University, a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and the editor of Medical Care Output and Productivity, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

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Titolo: Changing Hospital Industry : Comparing ...
Casa editrice: University of Chicago Press
Data di pubblicazione: 2000
Legatura: Rilegato
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