Payments for care at private for-profit and private not-for-profit hospitals: a systematic review and meta-analysis
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Payments for care at private for-profit and private not-for-profit hospitals: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
BACKGROUND It has been shown that patients cared for at private for-profit hospitals have higher risk-adjusted mortality rates than those cared for at private not-for-profit hospitals. Uncertainty remains, however, about the economic implications of these forms of health care delivery. Since some policy-makers might still consider for-profit health care if expenditure savings were sufficiently ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Medical Association Journal
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0820-3946,1488-2329
DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.1040722