The strategies and autonomy of university hospitals in competitive environments.
University-owned hospitals face increasingly threatening and unstable environments. This article examines the strategies that university-owned hospitals are using, and can use, to respond to their changing environments. Further, it examines factors that can hinder or promote the effective development of university-owned hospital strategies.
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School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109..
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D003132:Commerce; D004465:Economic Competition; D004467:Economics; D004526:Efficiency; D006754:Hospital Restructuring; D006759:Hospital-Physician Joint Ventures; D006784:Hospitals, Teaching / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006785:Hospitals, University / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008119:Lobbying; D008389:Marketing of Health Services; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D010934:Planning Techniques; D012922:Social Change; D014481:United States