Traditionally, antitrust has not had a way to quantify the benefits of better healthcare outcomes from a potential … put the quality of care into healthcare merger analysis …

This study examines the impact of competition on hospital quality. Our panel covers all Dutch hospitals in the period … 2004–2008, in which the transparency of hospital quality information increased substantially. The paper contributes to the …-sectional differences in process indicators, but not in outcome indicators. In particular, more competition in the hospital's catchment area …

Park Hospital by Evanston Northwestern Healthcare in Evanston, Illinois. A major issue in the case was whether the merger … applicability of that framework to the prospective analysis of unconsummated hospital mergers …