Duplicated Hospital Facilities

Paul B. Ginsburg; Daniel M. Koretz; Steven A. Finkler; David Palm; Stephen Frederick; John Sahs; William B. Schwartz; Paul L. Joskow

doi:10.1056/NEJM198104163041620

Duplicated Hospital Facilities

Paul B. Ginsburg, Daniel M. Koretz, Steven A. Finkler, David Palm, Stephen Frederick, John Sahs, William B. Schwartz, Paul L. Joskow

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To the Editor: Schwartz and Joskow argued in the December 18 issue¹ that the successful elimination of duplication in hospital beds and three specialized types of hospital facilities would save little, if anything, beyond the cost of current health-planning activities. Their analysis, however, omits a major source of potential savings. They assumed that demand for the hospital services in question would not be affected by elimination of excess facilities — that is, if one hospital in a community were closed, days of care per capita would not be changed; all that would occur would be the transfer of days of.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	979-980
Number of pages	2
Journal	New England Journal of Medicine
Volume	304
Issue number	16
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJM198104163041620
State	Published - Apr 16 1981
Externally published	Yes

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