Can Efficiency and Community Service Be Symbiotic?: A Longitudinal Analysis of not-for-profit and for-profit Hospitals in the United States

ISBN-13: 9780815336334 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 160 str.

Sharyn J. Potter

Opis

Potter's book examines the claims of a narrowing distinction between not-for-profit and for-profit hospitals by analyzing short-term general hospital outcomes in the 48 contiguous states over a fifteen-year period in conjunction with various

Spis treści

Tables and Figures; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Organizational theory and the orientation of not-for-profit and for-profit hospitals; Chapter 3: Indices of hospital performanceChapter 4: Hospitals' organizational characteristics and environments;Chapter 5: Methods; Chapter 6: Results and conclusions; Appendix A: Creation of hospital technology variable; Appendix B: 25 hospital markets with the highest market concentration; Appendix C: OLS regression results of efficiency and community service outcomes; References; Index.

O autorze

Potter, Sharyn