Researchers studied hospital performance data for heart failure based on Joint Commission heart failure quality indicators and market competition intensity.
They found that hospitals in the least competitive markets performed only 2.9 percent better than the most competitive markets on left ventricular function assessment. In hospital referral regions, the least competitive markets performed 5.1 percent worse than the most competitive markets on discharge instructions.
The authors concluded that market competition may generate only small differences in heart failure care.
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