The for-profit hospital is in the minority numerically in all developed countries. Although the for-profits' market … contrast, for-profit chains have made few inroads in other countries. The literature on hospital ownership addresses three … fundamental questions. First, why do private not-for-profit organizations dominate the hospital industry? Second, how do private …

empirical evidence by using novel operations and claims data from a large, independent home health care firm with the Hospital …

Mergers that affiliate a hospital with a Catholic owner, network, or system reduce the set of possible reproductive …

, cross-sectional study of clinical and financial records for all ED visits to an urban, academic hospital in 2001 …, hospital inpatient length of stay, payment method, costs, and demographics. Results: Patients with three to 20 visits were more … likely to be admitted to the hospital than patients visiting once or twice. Patients visiting more than 20 times were less …

laggard in terms of those health outcomes that can be attributed to the healthcare system. In international comparisons of …. The UK spends less on healthcare than many other developed countries, but this must not be mistaken for a sign of superior … high-income countries are often hard to come by in the UK. Any country could keep healthcare spending in check by simply …

divide is now entirely artificial. People spend less time in hospital than used to be the case and 4 million people over the …