Competition in the Health System: Good News and Bad News

Health Affairs

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1996, Pages

  Miller, Robert H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; MULTICENTER STUDY; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; STANDARD; UNITED STATES;

COMMUNITY HEALTH PLANNING; ECONOMIC COMPETITION; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; MANAGED COMPETITION; ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0006619245     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.15.2.107     Document Type: Article

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