Specialty hospital market proliferation: Strategic implications for general hospitals

Health Care Management Review

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 294-300

  Al Amin, Mona ^a   Zinn, Jacqueline ^b   Rosko, Michael D ^c   Aaronson, William ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WIDENER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

general hospitals; hospital market; organizational ecology; organizational forms; resource partitioning; specialty hospitals; strategic thinking

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; GENERAL HOSPITAL; GOVERNMENT; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MEDICAL SOCIETY; STANDARD; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

AMERICAN HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; CENTERS FOR MEDICARE AND MEDICAID SERVICES (U.S.); COMMERCE; ECONOMIC COMPETITION; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HEALTH FACILITY CLOSURE; HEALTH PLAN IMPLEMENTATION; HOSPITALS, GENERAL; HOSPITALS, SPECIAL; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77957604345     PISSN: 03616274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/HMR.0b013e3181e04a06     Document Type: Article

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