Quality decreases from introducing patient choice in a National Health Service

A view often expressed about patient choice of health care providers is that it will increase competition between providers, which benefits the efficiency of the health system. We address here a patient choice initiative, regarding selection of hospital for specialty consultations, in the Portuguese...

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Main Author: Barros, Pedro Pita (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2022
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/26231
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:www.repository.utl.pt:10400.5/26231