title: M&A trend: no big deal. Tight credit could make it tougher to finance large for-profit acquisitions like those that made headlines the past two years.
authors.forename: Melanie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Evans
authors.forename: Vince
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Galloro
mesh_terms: D002202:Capital Financing / Q000639:trends*; D003625:Data Collection; D004181:Directories as Topic; D005544:Forecasting; D006273:Health Facility Merger / Q000191:economics* / Q000639:trends; D006777:Hospitals, Proprietary / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006788:Hospitals, Voluntary / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D014481:United States