P. Mohr1, M. Harries2, F. Grange3, R. Ehness4, L. Benjamin5, O. Siakpere6, L. McLeod7, S. Wolowacz8, J.A. Kaye9, I. Kontoudis10 Clinic of Dermatology, Dermatologic Center Buxtehude, Buxtehude, GERMANY Department of Medical Oncology, Guys and St Thomas’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Guys Hospital, London, UK Dermatology, Reims University Hospital, Reims, FRANCE Medical Hematology/oncology, Gl...

This is a descriptive study that evaluates the quality of live (QOL) of road accident head-injured patients after craniotomy. It investigates the relationship between the independent variables of demographic data, health, and social and economics and four aspects of participants' QOL, satisfaction, perception, health, and social and economics. The ninety participants in the study were patients ...

Consolidation via merger both from hospital-to-hospital mergers and from hospital acquisitions of physician groups is changing the competitive landscape of the provision of health care delivery in the United States. This Article undertakes a legal and economic examination of a recent Ninth Circuit case examining the hospital acquisition of a physician group. This Article explores the Saint Alph...

Hospital markets have become highly concentrated due to increasing numbers of mergers and acquisitions. These consolidations in hospital markets may have anticompetitive or procompetitive effects due to increasing market power, economies of scale and scope and quality consequences. In this chapter, market competition and concentration and their antitrust implications in hospital markets are exa...

1Department of Health Management and Health Economics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway; 2Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA; 3Department of Research and Development, Telemark Hospital, Skien, Norway; 4Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; 5Department of Transplantation Medicine, Oslo University ...