TY - JOUR AU - Mukamel, Dana B. AU - Zwanziger, Jack AU - Bamezai, Anil PY - 2002 DA - 2002/05/27 TI - Hospital competition, resource allocation and quality of care JO - BMC Health Services Research SP - 10 VL - 2 IS - 1 AB - A variety of approaches have been used to contain escalating hospital costs. One approach is intensifying price competition. The increase in price based competition, which changes the incentives hospitals face, coupled with the fact that consumers can more easily evaluate the quality of hotel services compared with the quality of clinical care, may lead hospitals to allocate more resources into hotel rather than clinical services. SN - 1472-6963 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-2-10 DO - 10.1186/1472-6963-2-10 ID - Mukamel2002 ER -