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The Economist:
Honey, we shrunk the hospitals

1 October 2011

A survey by the LSE, McKinsey and American health academics has found that larger hospitals enjoy superior outcomes in key areas and tended to be better managed.

This article appeared in The Economist on October 1, 2011
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Related Publications
Management in Healthcare: Why Good Practice Really Matters, Stephen Dorgan, Dennis Layton, Nicholas Bloom, Rebecca Homkes, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen. Joint McKinsey & Co, CEP and LSE Report
‘The Impact of Competition on Management Quality: Evidence from Public Hospitals’, Nicholas Bloom, Carol Propper, Stephan Seiler and John Van Reenen, Centre for Economic Performance Discussion Paper No. 983, May 2010

Related Links
Nicholas Bloom webpage
Rebecca Homkes webpage
Raffaella Sadun webpage
John Van Reenen webpage
Productivity and Innovation Programme webpage

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