Wong H & Mutter R, (2003)
‘The Effects of Hospital Consolidation on Quality of Care’
Presented at Agency for health care research and quality/ Federal Trade Commission Provider Competition and Quality Conference, May 28, 2003
- Analysis of how hospitals respond to mergers and competition.
- The authors create proxy measures for hospital quality, then estimate the average quality of consolidating hospitals before & after consolidation
Key results:
- Preliminary results suggest an increase in quality following consolidation. Whether the increase is experienced by the acquired hospital or the purchaser depends on the quality measure.
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