Health Affairs Web Exclusive Examines Hospital-Physician Competition

December 7, 2006 – 7:07 pm | posted in Primary Care

“Hospital-Physician Relations: Cooperation, Competition Or Separation?” Health Affairs: Robert Berenson, a senior fellow at the Urban Institute and a senior consulting researcher at the Center for Studying Health System Change, and colleagues in a Health Affairs Web exclusive examine how competition between hospitals and medical staff is growing as hospitalists take over more inpatient care and physicians become more reluctant to accept emergency department calls. According to researchers, health system challenges are uniting hospitals and physicians in some areas, but in other areas the ability and willingness of hospitals and physicians to work together is declining (Berenson et al., Health Affairs, 12/5). The article is part of a Health Affairs Web exclusive package on hospital-physician relations, which is available online.

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