Factors determining choice of health care provider in Jordan
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Factors determining choice of health care provider in Jordan.
This paper examines factors influencing a patient's choice of provider for outpatient health care services in Jordan. Factors including demographic, socioeconomic, insurance status, quality of care, household size and cost of health care were studied using a multinomial logit model applied to a sample of 1031 outpatients from the Jordan heathcare utilization and expenditure survey, 2000. The pa...
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عنوان ژورنال: Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1020-3397,1687-1634
DOI: 10.26719/2009.15.4.959