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The market for paid sick leave.
In many countries, general practitioners (GPs) are assigned the task of controlling the validity of their own patients' insurance claims. At the same time, they operate in a market where patients are customers free to choose their GP. Are these roles compatible? Can we trust that the gatekeeping decisions are untainted by private economic interests? Based on administrative registers from Norway...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Medical Association Journal
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0820-3946,1488-2329
DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.109-4660