Decentralization and centralization of healthcare resources: Investigating the associations of hospital competition and number of cardiologists per hospital with mortality and resource utilization in Japan

Sungchul Park, Jason Lee, Hiroshi Ikai, Tetsuya Otsubo and Yuichi Imanaka

Health Policy, 2013, vol. 113, issue 1, 100-109

Abstract: To investigate the associations of hospital competition and number of cardiologists per hospital (indicating the decentralization and centralization of healthcare resources, respectively) with 30-day in-hospital mortality, healthcare spending, and length of stay (LOS) among patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in Japan.

Keywords: Centralization; Decentralization; Hospital competition; Number of cardiologist per hospital; Acute myocardial infarction; Japan (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2013.06.005

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