Are acute hospital trust mergers associated with improvements in the quality of care?
This paper is the first to study the quality impact of a new wave of acute hospital mergers taking place in the English National Health Service from 2011 onwards, applying a group-time DID estimator to account for multiple treatment timings.
Authors
- David G. Lugo‐Palacios (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2621-5627)
- Jonathan Clarke (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1495-7746)
- J. Ross Beveridge
Institutions
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (GB)
- London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (GB)
- Global Policy Institute (US)
- NHS England
- Imperial College London (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Health Organization and Management
- Published
- 2024-10-20
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1108/jhom-09-2023-0268
- Primary Topic
- Healthcare Policy and Management
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00