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Is Patient Choice the Future of Health Care Systems?
Patient and user choice are at the forefront of the debate on the future direction of health and public services provision in many industrialized countries in Europe and elsewhere. It is used both, as a means to achieve desired policy goals in public health care systems such as greater efficiency and improved quality of care, and as a good with its own intrinsic value. However, the evidence sug...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of General Practice
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0960-1643,1478-5242
DOI: 10.3399/096016407782604758