title: Nursing, competition, and quality.
abstract: As the economic activity of the health care system becomes increasingly organized according to traditional market forces, administrators and those involved in quality assessment of nursing care must anticipate changing economic incentives and the challenges and opportunities they will present.
authors.forename: P I
authors.initials: PI
authors.lastname: Buerhaus
mesh_terms: D003363:Cost Control; D004465:Economic Competition; D006296:Health Services / Q000191:economics*; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D007884:Legislation, Nursing; D008389:Marketing of Health Services / Q000191:economics; D009739:Nursing Services / Q000191:economics*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D011787:Quality of Health Care