Cross-border care and healthcare quality improvement in Europe: the MARQuIS research project
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Cross-border care and healthcare quality improvement in Europe: the MARQuIS research project
Citizens are increasingly crossing borders within the European Union (EU). Europeans have always been free to travel to receive care abroad, but if they wished to benefit from their statutory social protection scheme, they were subject to their local or national legislation on social protection. This changed in 1991 with the European Court of Justice defining healthcare as a service, starting a...
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عنوان ژورنال: Quality and Safety in Health Care
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1475-3898,1475-3901
DOI: 10.1136/qshc.2008.029678