Medical Tourism and international healthcare management: fostering evidence based developments
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Healthcare globalization and medical tourism.
TO THE EDITOR—We read with great interest the article by Chen et al in Clinical Infectious Diseases on 15 December 2013 [1] and would like to bring some additional points to the readers’ attention. Chen et al report an increase in numbers of medical tourists from developed countries traveling overseas to obtain more affordable medical procedures and highlight the risk of unusual resistant hospi...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Healthcare Management
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2047-9700,2047-9719
DOI: 10.1179/2047970013z.00000000072