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Strategies for more efficient performance through hospital merger
Tony Sinay1, Claudia R Campbell
1Division of Health Management, Des Moines University, Osteopathic Medical Center, Des Moines, Iowa, USA.
Health Care Management Review
|January 5, 2002
Abstract:
This article compares the operating performance of merged and non-merged local hospitals during the late 1980s and early 1990s, a period not unlike that being experienced in hospitals today. A matched case-control design is employed to create "synthetically" merged hospitals--to represent them as if they had effected a merger--and compares their performance to a group of similar hospitals that did merge.