Abstract
Strategies associated with ownership or management of a range of health service facilities, service sharing, and other coordination activities are important to the viability of many rural hospitals. This article articulates a set of linkage strategies employed by rural hospitals. Such strategies and their environmental and organizational correlates are assessed in a sample of 46 rural Pennsylvania hospitals.
MeSH terms
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Contract Services / statistics & numerical data
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Health Services Research / methods
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Hospital Shared Services / statistics & numerical data*
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Hospitals, Rural / organization & administration*
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Hospitals, Rural / statistics & numerical data
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Multi-Institutional Systems / statistics & numerical data
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Organizational Affiliation / statistics & numerical data*
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Ownership / statistics & numerical data
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Pennsylvania
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Regression Analysis
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Surveys and Questionnaires