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The Phenomenon Of Outbound Medical Tourism In The United States, Tanner Douglas Cabbage Dec 2014

The Phenomenon Of Outbound Medical Tourism In The United States, Tanner Douglas Cabbage

Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects

No abstract provided.


Hospital Competitive Strategies And Performance Outcomes, Wei Wu Aug 2014

Hospital Competitive Strategies And Performance Outcomes, Wei Wu

Doctoral Dissertations

Hospitals are under increasing pressure to improve performance and healthcare outcomes. The existing literature does not point to a clear conclusion on whether competition can help address the performance challenges of hospitals which lead to improvements in clinical outcomes. Prior research on the effects of hospital competitive strategies usually focuses on one strategy or one type of outcome at a time. As such, there is a dearth of systematical studies on different hospital competitive strategies and their consequent performance outcomes.

The main objective of this dissertation is to examine several hospital competitive strategies and quantitatively validate the implications of each …


There Will Be Blood, Kerri E Moore May 2014

There Will Be Blood, Kerri E Moore

Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects

No abstract provided.