Rivers P A, Glover S, Munchus G
Arizona State University, USA.
J Health Hum Serv Adm. 2000 Summer;23(1):37-49.
In response to dramatic rises in health care costs, policy-makers have been debating the relative merits of competitive strategies as a means of containing costs. This article represents a study of the 29 largest MSAs for 1991. Controlling for environmental conditions in each market, the impact of competition on hospital costs was examined. Competition was found to have had a significant positive impact on overall hospital costs.
为应对医疗保健成本的急剧上升，政策制定者一直在讨论竞争策略作为控制成本手段的相对优点。本文是对1991年29个最大的大都市统计区的一项研究。在控制每个市场环境条件的情况下，研究了竞争对医院成本的影响。研究发现竞争对医院总成本产生了显著的积极影响。
