Garnick D W, Luft H S, Robinson J C, Tetreault J
Health Serv Res. 1987 Apr;22(1):69-89.
As public and private policymakers turn to market-oriented strategies to control hospital prices, it is necessary to understand the conceptual underpinnings of hospital market area measurement. This article provides a framework for evaluating which definitions of hospital market areas are suitable for various types of analyses. Hospital market areas can be defined from two perspectives: an individual hospital perspective and that of the overall market. From each perspective, empirical definitions can be based on geopolitical boundaries, distance between hospitals, and patient-origin data. In this article, market areas are compared based on various descriptions using data on California hospitals and patient discharge abstracts.
随着公共和私人政策制定者转向以市场为导向的策略来控制医院价格，有必要了解医院市场区域测量的概念基础。本文提供了一个框架，用于评估哪些医院市场区域的定义适用于各种类型的分析。医院市场区域可以从两个角度来定义：单个医院的角度和整个市场的角度。从每个角度来看，实证定义可以基于地缘政治边界、医院之间的距离以及患者来源数据。在本文中，利用加利福尼亚州医院的数据和患者出院摘要，根据各种描述对市场区域进行了比较。
