A Race to the Top? Competitive Pressure and Magnet Adoption Among US Hospitals 1997-2012.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Care quality continues to be a focal point within US health care. One quality innovation is the Magnet recognition program for hospitals, which is a nurse-driven initiative emphasizing care and patient-safety improvements. To date, Magnet hospitals have been associated with better outcomes, but their distribution is highly uneven. Relatedly, little research has characterized what factors drive Magnet adoption (eg, competitive pressure from other hospitals).

Objective

To examine if hospitals respond to more competing hospitals becoming Magnets by also becoming Magnet institutions.

Research design

We use longitudinal data from the American Hospital Association, 1997-2012, and estimate hospital-level fixed-effect regressions to capture the association between

SUBMITTER: Richards MR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5352515 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature