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A profile of preacquisition proprietary hospitals
Health Care Management Review, 1988A 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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The proprietary hospital industry: A financial analysis 1972–1982
Social Science & Medicine, 1985This 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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Further Evidence on the Relative Performance of Proprietary and Nonprofit Hospitals
Medical Care, 1977Proposed implementation of health systems agencies (HSA) gives potentially large roles to consurers and local government officials. The paper argues that there will be a tendency for HSAs to discriminate against proprietary hospitals. It is important, therefore, to have information on whether proprietaries belong in an efficient hospital system.
J E, Kushman, C F, Nuckton
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JAMA Internal Medicine, 2021
The Epic Sepsis Model (ESM), a proprietary sepsis prediction model, is implemented at hundreds of US hospitals. The ESM's ability to identify patients with sepsis has not been adequately evaluated despite widespread use.To externally validate the ESM in the prediction of sepsis and evaluate its potential clinical value compared with usual care.This ...
Andrew, Wong +11 more
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The Epic Sepsis Model (ESM), a proprietary sepsis prediction model, is implemented at hundreds of US hospitals. The ESM's ability to identify patients with sepsis has not been adequately evaluated despite widespread use.To externally validate the ESM in the prediction of sepsis and evaluate its potential clinical value compared with usual care.This ...
Andrew, Wong +11 more
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Mental disorders in public, private nonprofit, and proprietary general hospitals
American Journal of Psychiatry, 1996The 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
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THE USES OF PROPRIETARY AND MEDICINAL FOODS IN THE HOSPITAL
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1930The heyday of the "patent medicine" is past. The public has learned that health cannot be purchased in bottle form. Shotgun prescribing by physicians is being superseded by the rational use of drugs of known composition and action. The value of hygiene, physical therapeutics and diet in the prevention and amelioration of disease is becoming recognized ...
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The Erlangen University Hospital Communication Hub - Proprietary and Standardised Communication
1998The University of Erlangen-Nuremberg contains 22 hospitals and 11 autonomous medical departments which are spread out over a large area in the city of Erlangen. The necessary connections of these units and their computer based subsystems to each other and to the medical computer centre via fibre optics cables is complete.
Bernhard Wentz +4 more
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Effects of Proprietary Management in General Hospital Psychitric Units
Psychiatric Services, 1986The rapid increase in the number of proprietary psychiatric hospitals during the last 15 years has drawn criticism from those concerned about the impact of the profit motive on the quality of patient care. This study assessed changes in the structure and quality of care on 13 acute care psychiatric units before and after a single outside proprietary ...
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Health Services Management Research, 1990
Individual hospitals often share their markets with other nearby hospitals. In this paper we examine how a hospital's ownership and the ownership of its hospital neighbours influence the availability of selected services. The presence of a CT scanner and a newborn nursery were found to be associated with both hospital ownership (voluntary, proprietary,
R G, Hughes, H S, Luft
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Individual hospitals often share their markets with other nearby hospitals. In this paper we examine how a hospital's ownership and the ownership of its hospital neighbours influence the availability of selected services. The presence of a CT scanner and a newborn nursery were found to be associated with both hospital ownership (voluntary, proprietary,
R G, Hughes, H S, Luft
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Proprietary Hospitals in the United States
1974It 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 ...
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