title: No clear direction for financial management and survival.
abstract: The 1980 literature on hospital financial management covered wide-ranging territory, from DRGs and reimbursement to capital management and competition. However, strategies for future survival remained unclear.
mesh_terms: D004469:Economics, Hospital; D005376:Financial Management; D011907:Rate Setting and Review; D012051:Reimbursement Mechanisms; D014481:United States