title: Informing the debate: are single specialty hospitals more cost efficient than full-service hospitals?
abstract: (1) Overall, single specialty hospitals (SSHs) are not more cost efficient than competing, full-service, acute care hospitals. (2) There was not a significant difference between cardiac SSH and full-service hospital cost inefficiency. (3) There was a significant difference between orthopedic/surgical SSH and full-service hospital cost inefficiency.
authors.affiliation: Changes in Health Care Financing and Organization, AcademyHealth, USA. jenny.minott@academyhealth.org.
authors.forename: Jenny
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Minott
mesh_terms: D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D006769:Hospitals, General / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006782:Hospitals, Special / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D018803:Models, Economic; D010067:Ownership; D010820:Physicians; D014481:United States