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Mukamel D, Zwanziger J & Bamezai A, (2002)
‘Hospital Competition, Resource Allocation and Quality of Care’
BMC Health Services Research 2:10
- Investigates the effect of changing the type of competition (not the
level of competition), from quality-based to price-based competition,
on hospital behaviour and patient mortality.
- Uses data from California to
test the hypothesis that in a price-competitive
environment, hospitals will shift resources from activities related to
clinical services, which are not easily observed and evaluated by patients,
into hotel
services which are easily observed.
Key results:
- In for-profit hospitals the marginal effect of competition was not
statistically significant.
- In not-for-profit hospitals, the marginal
effect of competition fell over time, but fell faster in clinical
services than in hotel
services.
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