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The changing hospital industry : comparing not-for-profit and for-profit institutions /
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 fo...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2000.
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| Collection: | Conference report (National Bureau of Economic Research)
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | 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-f. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (ix, 368 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 0226132226 9780226132228 |