title: Hospital strategies for the eighties: a mid-decade look.
abstract: At the beginning of the 1980s, a variety of sources predicted turbulent times for the hospital industry. The past few years have brought many changes in the expectations, structure, and behavior of hospitals, and key questions face this health care industry as it enters the second half of the decade.
mesh_terms: D003201:Computers; D003363:Cost Control / Q000639:trends; D005377:Financial Management, Hospital / Q000639:trends; D006739:Hospital Administration / Q000639:trends*; D006754:Hospital Restructuring / Q000639:trends; D006801:Humans; D008389:Marketing of Health Services / Q000639:trends; D009096:Multi-Institutional Systems / Q000639:trends; D012052:Reimbursement, Incentive / Q000639:trends; D014481:United States; D014600:Utilization Review / Q000639:trends