title: Specialty hospitals: the challenge of the 1980s.
abstract: Specialty care institutions will face many concerns during the remainder of this decade. Increased intermediary and community education, establishing reliable benchmarks, understanding and dealing with a competitive marketplace, and establishing improved professional productivity are some of the major challenges.
mesh_terms: D003153:Community Health Services / Q000191:economics; D006739:Hospital Administration; D006782:Hospitals, Special / Q000191:economics* / Q000639:trends; D007350:Insurance, Hospitalization; D014481:United States; D000078329:Workforce