Incorporating health care quality into health antitrust law

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Schneider, Helen ^a,b  

^a School of Public Health   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPETITION; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; EMPIRICISM; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; LAW; MORTALITY; NON PROFIT HOSPITAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ECONOMICS; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MULTIHOSPITAL SYSTEM; STANDARD; UNITED STATES;

ANTITRUST LAWS; CALIFORNIA; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ECONOMIC COMPETITION; ECONOMICS, HOSPITAL; HEALTH FACILITY MERGER; HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATIONS; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MARKETING OF HEALTH SERVICES; MULTI-INSTITUTIONAL SYSTEMS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 43549103582     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-8-89     Document Type: Article

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