 Health Facility Merger
"Health Facility Merger" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The combining of administrative and organizational resources of two or more health care facilities.
| Descriptor ID |
D006273
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| MeSH Number(s) |
N02.278.235
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| Concept/Terms |
Health Facility Merger- Health Facility Merger
- Merger, Health Facility
- Facility Merger, Health
- Facility Mergers, Health
- Health Facility Mergers
- Mergers, Health Facility
Health Facility Acquisition- Health Facility Acquisition
- Acquisition, Health Facility
- Acquisitions, Health Facility
- Facility Acquisition, Health
- Facility Acquisitions, Health
- Health Facility Acquisitions
Hospital Merger- Hospital Merger
- Hospital Mergers
- Merger, Hospital
- Mergers, Hospital
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Health Facility Merger" by people in this website by year, and whether "Health Facility Merger" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| 2003 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2013 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Health Facility Merger" by people in Profiles.
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Tsai TC, Jha AK. Hospital consolidation, competition, and quality: is bigger necessarily better? JAMA. 2014 Jul 02; 312(1):29-30.
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Krantz MJ, Brown CA, Mehler PS. The value of a safety-net hospital case example: Denver Health. J Ambul Care Manage. 2013 Jul-Sep; 36(3):178-86.
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Abramson E, Hyman D, Osorio SN, Kaushal R. Implementing a patient safety and quality program across two merged pediatric institutions. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2009 Jan; 35(1):43-8.
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Dranove D, Lindrooth R. Hospital consolidation and costs: another look at the evidence. J Health Econ. 2003 Nov; 22(6):983-97.
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Smith M, Graham P, Holtrop JS, Thomason C, Joyce B. Muddling through a merger: a qualitative study of two combined family practice residencies. Fam Med. 2003 Jul-Aug; 35(7):482-8.
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Connor RA, Feldman RD, Dowd BE, Radcliff TA. Which types of hospital mergers save consumers money? Health Aff (Millwood). 1997 Nov-Dec; 16(6):62-74.
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