Empirical Analysis the Competitive Effects of Profit-making Hospitals
10.7664/CHE20140124
- VernacularTitle:我国营利性医院竞争效果的实证研究
- Author:
Binbin HAN
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
profit-making hospital;
non-profit hospital;
medical expenses;
quality of medical care
- From:
Chinese Health Economics
2014;(1):73-75
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective: From the two prospective of hospital quantity and hospital market shares, to analyze the influences of profitmaking hospital’s competition on medical expenses and medical quality. Methods: The sample of provincial panel data from 2003 to 2011 is used, the fixed effect model is applied. Conclusion: For the competitive effect, the expanding of relative scale of profit-making hospitals increased outpatient expenses and reduced hospitalization expenses; for the quality effectiveness, the expand of relative scale of profit -hospitals improved the quality of outpatient service; the simple increase of the quantity of profit -making hospitals had no significant influences on medical expenses and quality of medical care.