title: Equal future prospects for all hospitals in Europe? Trends in development within the European Union.
abstract: The Common Market does not stop at the national health systems of the European countries. Hospital systems are no longer compared only among themselves, but they increasingly affect each other and become closely connected. This development concerns the personnel level as well as the exchange of patients. The former president and now vice-president of the German Hospital Association draws a summary of European hospital development over the last few years.
authors.affiliation: German Hospital Association.
authors.forename: Burghard
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Rocke
mesh_terms: D004465:Economic Competition; D005062:European Union; D006761:Hospitals / Q000639:trends*; D011057:Politics; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000592:standards