; following a monotonic decline in relative size, by 2000, the average nonprofit hospital was only 32% larger than the typical for …, nonprofit hospitals maintained on average more than three times as many beds per hospital as their for-profit counterparts …-profit hospital. Hospital level data for the United States indicate that the convergence was driven primarily by industry-wide effects …

heterogeneity is a major determinant of diversity of procurement choices. More important are hospital size (which will be related to … recognise the roles of the various players (patient, surgeon and hospital procurement department) when purchases are made from a … framework explaining prosthesis choice, considering the roles and preferences of the patient, surgeon, hospital and supplier …