title: Measuring hospital performance in multiinstitutional organizations using financial ratios.
abstract: The growth in the number of hospitals participating in MIOs is a critical force in the health services industry. Financial ratios serve as a tool to analyze the performance of these MIOs. Ratios can provide signals of financial stress or strength, which is essential to survival in a price-competitive environment.
mesh_terms: D000066:Accounting / Q000379:methods*; D000067:Accounts Payable and Receivable; D003363:Cost Control / Q000639:trends; D005375:Financial Audit / Q000379:methods*; D006777:Hospitals, Proprietary / Q000191:economics; D006788:Hospitals, Voluntary / Q000191:economics; D007449:Investments / Q000191:economics; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009096:Multi-Institutional Systems / Q000191:economics*; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D014481:United States