Market watch: Making profits and providing care: Comparing nonprofit, for-profit, and government hospitals - Discussion of the value of nonprofit hospital ownership must account for the differences in service offerings among hospital types

Health Affairs

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 790-801

  Horwitz, Jill R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN LAW SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DRUG MARKETING; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CENTER; HEALTH SERVICE; MEDICAL SERVICE; PROFIT; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; UNITED STATES; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECONOMICS; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INCOME; NON PROFIT HOSPITAL; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT;

HOSPITALS, PROPRIETARY; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HOSPITALS, VOLUNTARY; HUMANS; INCOME; OWNERSHIP; UNITED STATES;

EID: 20144380805     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.24.3.790     Document Type: Article

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