ReviewRisk management and healthcare policy2021
Hospital Competition and Unplanned Readmission: Evidence from a Systematic Review.
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8 citing papers in PubMed.
- Access to choice‑enabled healthcare providers among children and adults with intellectual disabilities in comparison with the general population (IDcare).BMC health services research · 2026Article
- Challenging selective contracting: reforms for enhancing patient empowerment in healthcare.Israel journal of health policy research · 2025Article
- The impact of hospital competition on healthcare quality: evidence from China's healthcare reform.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- The Impact of Hospital Competition on the Quality of Care in Europe: A Systematic Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Does hospital competition improve the quality of outpatient care? - empirical evidence from a quasi-experiment in a Chinese city.Health economics review · 2024Article
- The causal effect of delivery volume on severe maternal morbidity: an instrumental variable analysis in Sichuan, China.BMJ global health · 2022Article
- The Effect of Interdependences of Referral Behaviors on the Quality of Ambulatory Care: Evidence from Taiwan.Risk management and healthcare policy · 2021Article
- Director's Perceived Competition and Its Relationship with Hospital's Competitive Behaviors: Evidence from County Hospitals in China.Risk management and healthcare policy · 2021Article
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Abstract
Competition has been widely introduced among hospitals in the hope of improving health-care quality. However, whether competition leads to higher-quality health care is a topic of considerable debate. We conducted a systematic review to assess the impact of hospital-market competition on unplanned readmission. We searched six electronic databases (PubMed, EmBase, Wiley Online Library, Web of Science, Scopus, and JSTOR) and reference lists of screened articles for relevant studies, and strictly followed methods proposed by the Cochrane Collaboration. Finally, nine observational studies with 2,241,767 patients were included. For the primary outcome, pooled results of three studies showed that it was uncertain whether or not hospital competition reduces readmission (
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