Over the last few years, there have been three interesting antitrust cases involving physician-owned hospitals. From a physician-owned hospital perspective, the outcome of the cases were an outright win, a settlement and a loss. A brief discussion of each is…
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The following article appeared in the September 2009 issue of Connection, the bi-monthly e-newsletter from the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care.Q: How do I choose a good QI topic?