Hospital-based health systems 20 years later: A taxonomy for policy research and analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Building on the original taxonomy of hospital-based health systems from 20 years ago, we develop a new taxonomy to inform emerging public policy and practice developments.

Data sources

The 2016 American Hospital Association's (AHA) Annual Survey; the 2016 IQVIA Healthcare Organizations and Systems (HCOS) database; and the 2017-2018 National Survey of Healthcare Organizations and Systems (NSHOS).

Study design

Cluster analysis of the 2016 AHA Annual Survey data to derive measures of differentiation, centralization, and integration to create categories or types of hospital-based health systems.

Data collection

Principal components factor analysis with varimax rotation generating the factors used in the cluster algorithms.

Principal findings

Among

SUBMITTER: Shortell SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8143673 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature