Closure Among U.S. Community Hospitals, 1976-1980

A Description and a Predictive Model

Bibliographic Data

ID9099111
AuthorsRoss M Mullner (American Hospital Association, corresponding author), Calvin S Byre (American Hospital Association, corresponding author), Paul S Levy (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Joseph D Kubal (American Hospital Association, corresponding author)
Year1982
Volume20
Issue7
Pages699-709
Publication date1982-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueMedical Care (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0025-7079 • E-ISSN: 1537-1948
PublisherOvid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1097/00005650-198207000-00005
PMID7121089
OpenAlexW2087886384
LanguageEN
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Closure of U.S. community hospitals during the years 1976-1980 is analyzed by describing the distributional patterns of closings among hospitals classified by certain institutional characteristics: bed size, number of facilities and services, ownership, teaching status, location in a Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area (SMSA) or in a non-SMSA, and location in one of the nine United States Census Divisions. The method of Cox regression analysis is used to show that each of these institutional characteristics is independently, and significantly, associated with closure, and to estimate the strength of the association. On the basis of this analysis, a theoretic model is constructed for estimating the relative probability of closure for any community hospital with a given set of these institutional characteristics

Census · Closure (psychology) · Econometrics · Geography · Metropolitan area · Political science · Population · Regression analysis · Set (abstract data type) · Sociology · Statistics · Computer Science · Demography · Global Health Care Issues · Healthcare Policy and Management · Mathematics

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