Measuring hospital competition

Medical Care

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1988, Pages 256-262

  White, Stephen L ^a,b   Chirikos, Thomas N ^b  

^a Preferred Health Care Ltd ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Health care costs; Herfindahl index; Hospitals; Market competition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COST; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ECONOMICS; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; PREVALENCE; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ECONOMIC COMPETITION; ECONOMICS; ECONOMICS, HOSPITAL; FLORIDA; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 0023971202     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: 15371948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005650-198803000-00003     Document Type: Article

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