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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"hospital mergers"”.
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Structural Robustness of Transformer Models for Clinical Text Summarization on MIMIC-III
… notes undergo structural degradation through hospital mergers, EHR migrations, and copy-paste practices, conditions that no prior study has tested for summarization. This thesis evaluates five models (BART-CNN, BioBART, PEGASUS, Flan-T5-XL, MedAlpaca-7B) across four structural perturbations …
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Vertical Contracting In The Us Health Care Industry
… paid for the same medical services at the same hospital. This price variation, although difficult for consumers to observe, is driven at least in part by insurers' negotiating effort, and materially impacts the value of the insurance plan. Second, in a retrospective analysis of hospital mergers, …
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Does Similarity Produce Synergy in Horizontal Hospital Acquisitions? Linking Operations Characteristics to Operations Strategy
The efficiency gains of hospital mergers and acquisitions (M&As) are derived not only from the market, financial, and managerial synergies, but also from operational synergies in economies of scale, clinical standardizations, service line optimizations, and so forth. To understand the roles that …
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Essays on the determinants of healthcare utilization
The first chapter investigates how hospital mergers affect technology adoption and utilization. I analyze the mergers of five for-profit hospital chains in a difference-in-difference framework, comparing markets in which two or more of the merging chains operated prior to the mergers to markets in …
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Application of Lewin's Change Process to Nurses in Employment Transition
<p>The objectives of the study reflect the research questions and are as follows:<br> 1. To determine the moods of the merging nurses prior to an impending merger.<br> 2. To determine the moods of the merging nurses six months following the merger of their institution.<br> 3. To examine the …
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The Relationship of a Hospital Merger to Elicited Moods and Feelings of the Merging and Merged Professional Nursing Staff
… four years following the merger of their two hospitals.</p>