title: Hospital consolidation, competition, and quality: is bigger necessarily better?
authors: Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts2Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
authors: Thomas C
authors: TC
authors: Tsai
authors: Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts3Department of Medicine, General Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts4VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, Massachusetts.
authors: Ashish K
authors: AK
authors: Jha
mesh_terms: D019033:Delivery of Health Care, Integrated; D004465:Economic Competition; D004469:Economics, Hospital; D017048:Health Care Costs; D005102:Health Expenditures; D006273:Health Facility Merger / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards / Q000639:trends*; D006291:Health Policy; D006742:Hospital Bed Capacity; D058991:Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; D058996:Quality Improvement; D014481:United States