The most salient distinctive feature of HHC is the site of care. With services delivered in the home rather than in a centralized facility, the nature of competition is different. For hospitals andphysician offices, location provides a degree of market power that does not exist for HHAs because...
The participants were from the Clinic Hospital of Barcelona (CHB), which is a tertiary facility that has 819 beds and a catchment area of 540,000 inhabitants within the Barcelona metropolitan area. The total inpatient population admitted at CHB from 2007 to 2014 was n = 163,587; inclusion an...