title: Top 100 hospitals: the best-run hospitals. For-profits spur efficiency.
abstract: For-profit hospital companies are spurring the industry's all-out drive toward efficiency. That's one of the principal findings of an analysis of 1994 Medicare cost and discharge data from 4,000 acute-care hospitals by HCIA and William M. Mercer. The analysis produced a list of ¿100 Top Hospitals: Benchmarks for Success.¿
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Morrissey
mesh_terms: D003625:Data Collection; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D004181:Directories as Topic; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D005377:Financial Management, Hospital; D006742:Hospital Bed Capacity; D017052:Hospital Mortality; D016304:Hospitals, Private / Q000145:classification / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards*; D006777:Hospitals, Proprietary / Q000145:classification / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D007049:Iatrogenic Disease; D014481:United States