Quantifying effect of a hospital's caseload for a surgical specialty on that of another hospital using multi-attribute market segments

Health Care Management Science

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 121-131

  Dexter, Franklin ^a   Wachtel, Ruth E ^a   Sohn, Min Woong ^b   Ledolter, Johannes ^c   Dexter, Elisabeth U ^d   Macario, Alex ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b HINES VA HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^d State University of New York Upstate Medical University: College of Medicine   (United States)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hospital competition; Hospital marketing; Market segmentation; Operating room economics; Operating room management

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA BASE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HOSPITAL PATIENT; MARKET; OPERATING ROOM; OUTPATIENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

CATCHMENT AREA (HEALTH); DATA COLLECTION; ECONOMIC COMPETITION; MARKETING OF HEALTH SERVICES; SPECIALTIES, SURGICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 18844396713     PISSN: 13869620     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10729-005-0395-5     Document Type: Article

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