A note on the relational aspects of hospital market definitions.
Several recent analyses of the structure, conduct and performance of local hospital markets base their market definitions on geographic constructs that fail to consider the implications of a market's location relative to other hospital markets. In this note we show the importance of relational aspects of hospital markets. Use of any a priori measure of hospital markets that does not consider these aspects should be reconsidered.
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