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Science Behind a Paywall: Restricted Access Limits the Promise of Artificial Intelligence

open access: yes
Learned Publishing, Volume 39, Issue 3, July 2026.
Haoyi Zheng, Huichun Zhan
wiley   +1 more source

Mental disorders in public, private nonprofit, and proprietary general hospitals

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Psychiatry, 1996
The authors' goal was to assess the effects of facility ownership on the characteristics of psychiatric inpatients treated in public, private nonprofit, or proprietary general hospitals.Data from the 1993 National Hospital Discharge Survey were analyzed to determine the number, sociodemographic and diagnostic composition, and treatment characteristics ...
M, Olfson, D, Mechanic
openaire   +3 more sources

Proprietary Hospitals in the United States

open access: yes, 1974
It has been traditionally argued that short-term private hospitals in the United States are predominantly non-profit voluntary institutions because they owe their origins to the charitable hospital of the nineteenth century, because they enjoy tax and other advantages over profit-making hospitals, and because Americans abhor the idea of profiting at ...
Richard N. Rosett
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Proprietary Hospital Social Work

Health & Social Work, 1988
The rapid growth of the proprietary sector in the provision of social services creates a challenge for the social work profession. Little is known about social work services in for-profit organizations or about how they compare with similar services in nonprofit setting.
E T, Ortiz, B Z, Bassoff
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An examination of the efficiency of proprietary hospital versus non-proprietary hospital ownership structures

Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, 1997
Abstract As the health care industry evolves, communities will be faced with the choice of ownership structure for their local hospitals. Unfortunately, the evidence concerning which structure is most efficient, proprietary or non-proprietary, is mixed (e.g., Sloan and Vraciu 1983, pp. 25–37 and Clarkson 1972, pp. 374–377).
Richard B. Carter   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

Proprietary Hospital Chains and Academic Medical Centers

International Journal of Health Services, 1987
This article examines the reasons why proprietary hospital chains have become interested in buying or managing academic health center hospitals. Among the explanations that are discussed are such factors as vertical integration of health care, chain legitimation, integration of finance and delivery systems, and short-term profit potential.
H S, Berliner, R K, Burlage
openaire   +2 more sources

Proprietary hospitals in cost containment

The American Journal of Cardiology, 1985
Any effort to control the rise in health care costs must start with analyzing the causes, which are really quite simple. Most cost control efforts fail because they do not address the causes. The causes are large subsidies in several forms that send a false message that health care is free and should be used abundantly, and expansive reimbursement ...
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The proprietary hospital industry: A financial analysis 1972–1982

Social Science & Medicine, 1985
This paper evaluates the performance of both specific firms within the American for-profit hospital industry and the industry as a whole. First, traditional financial analysis is used to evaluate individual publicly traded for-profit chains. Then, industry performance from 1973 to 1982 is evaluated using a set of measures based on Modern Portfolio ...
A, Michel, I, Shaked, J, Daley
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A profile of preacquisition proprietary hospitals

Health Care Management Review, 1988
A study was conducted to compare the financial, hospital, and market characteristics of proprietary hospitals prior to their acquisition by investor-owned hospital chains to free-standing proprietary hospitals and not-for-profit preacquisition hospitals.
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