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6490379

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
1984-12-3
pubmed:abstractText
Since the public sector traditionally has provided the public goods viewed as unprofitable by the private sector, the growing trend to manage public hospitals under outside private contract raises some fundamental issues of concern. It is hypothesized here that the system maintenance and output goals of privately managed public hospitals become increasingly similar to those of investor-owned hospitals. The thesis is empirically tested using documented effects of private contract management on the operative goals of short-term, general hospitals owned by local governmental bodies. Traditionally managed public hospitals matched with the study hospitals on important characteristics serve as the control group. Costs do appear to be reduced under private contract management, but the service structure becomes somewhat altered. It is the task of public health policymakers to reconcile the cost-control and efficiency mechanisms brought about by private management with the community's right of access to comprehensive medical care. Carefully structured regionalization plans--a possible means of providing both--will require the stimulation of more government involvement during an era of cutbacks.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0017-9124
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
19
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
519-44
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1984
pubmed:articleTitle
The private management of public hospitals.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article