Does competition improve health care quality?

Health Services Research

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1931-1951

  Scanlon, Dennis P ^a   Swaminathan, Shailender ^b   Lee, Woolton ^a   Chernew, Michael ^c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

CAHPS; Competition; HEDIS; HMOs; Managed care; Markets; NCQA; Performance measurement; Quality

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BOOTSTRAPPING; COMPETITION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; DATA COLLECTION; ECONOMIC COMPETITION; HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATIONS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE;

EID: 55949093498     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: 14756773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2008.00899.x     Document Type: Article

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