Databases for Research on Nonprofit Health Care Organizations: Opportunities and Limitations

As tax-exempt entities that compete in commercial markets with for-profit organizations, nonprofit health care organizations present stimulating intellectual challenges to the theorist and the empiricist alike. Because of third-party payment and policy intensiveness of health care, much information...

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Published in:The American behavioral scientist (Beverly Hills) 2002-06, Vol.45 (10), p.1550-1591
Main Authors: Gray, Bradford H, Clement, Jan P
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Community
Data analysis
Data collection
Demographics
Efficiency
Expenditures
GDP
Gross Domestic Product
Health care
Health care delivery
Health care industry
Health care policy
Health facilities
Health maintenance organizations
Health research
Health services
HMOs
Hospitals
Human behaviour
Information
Length of stay
Markets
Medicaid
Medicare
Non-profit organizations
Nonprofit making organizations
Nonprofit organizations
Nursing homes
Patient satisfaction
Political economy
Profits
Public policy
Rehabilitation
Researchers
Social research
Sociology
USA
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Summary:As tax-exempt entities that compete in commercial markets with for-profit organizations, nonprofit health care organizations present stimulating intellectual challenges to the theorist and the empiricist alike. Because of third-party payment and policy intensiveness of health care, much information is available to researchers. Most research has focused on comparisons with for-profits and on public policy issues. This article describes the major streams of research on health care delivery organizations and the main sources and types of data that are available to researchers. We suggest criteria for evaluating data sources and identify some limitations and barriers that now exist. We conclude by identifying and assessing the data problems that could confront researchers interested in ownership issues in health care and by offering suggestions on how the more serious ones might be addressed to facilitate improved research.
ISSN:0002-7642
1552-3381
DOI:10.1177/0002764202045010006