Hospital service duplication: Evidence on the medical arms race

Business & Economics

• Arms Race 100%
• Hospital Services 81%
• High-tech 22%
• Inpatients 21%
• Ancillary Services 16%
• Maximum Likelihood Estimation 11%
• Margin 10%
• Costs 9%
• Hospital Competition 9%
• Consumer Demand 9%
• Unit of Analysis 6%
• Financial Returns 6%
• Managed Care 6%
• Revenue 6%
• Local Communities 6%
• Return on Assets 6%
• Organizational Factors 6%
• Environmental Factors 6%
• Wisdom 5%
• Costs and Benefits 5%
• Policymaker 5%
• Financial Performance 5%
• Coefficients 4%

Social Sciences

• hospital services 94%
• arms race 89%
• evidence 28%
• ancillary services 19%
• costs 17%
• acute care hospitals 9%
• financial performance 8%
• managed care 7%
• wisdom 5%
• environmental factors 5%
• revenue 5%
• assets 5%
• demand 4%

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Hospital Administrators 28%
• Costs and Cost Analysis 24%
• Inpatients 23%
• Administrative Personnel 20%
• Managed Care Programs 11%
• Cost-Benefit Analysis 8%
• Pressure 6%