Kuchinke, Bjoern A.; Zerth, Juergen G.; Neute, Nadine - 2010
aspects of standardization in regional health care markets with no price competition received comparatively little attention …. Nevertheless, in many health care systems there is a trend to enforce standardization in inpatient and in outpatient care. As … health care supply is normally organized at a regional level the impact of standardization on spatial com-petition seems to …