Gaming the System: Dodging the Rules, Ruling the Dodgers

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 151, Issue 3, 1991, Pages 443-447

  Morreim, E Haavi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY;

ANALYTICAL APPROACH; CLINICAL APPROACH/SOURCE; CONTRACTS; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; HOME CARE; INDIGENTS; JUSTICE; MISCONDUCT; MORAL POLICY; OBLIGATIONS TO SOCIETY; POLICY ANALYSIS; REMUNERATION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RISKS AND BENEFITS; STIGMATIZATION; TRUST; UNITED STATES;

BENEFICENCE; COST CONTROL; DECEPTION; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; ETHICS, MEDICAL; FRAUD; HEALTH SERVICES MISUSE; HOME CARE SERVICES; HUMAN; INSURANCE CARRIERS; INSURANCE CLAIM REPORTING; INSURANCE, HEALTH, REIMBURSEMENT; MALPRACTICE; MORAL OBLIGATIONS; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PROFESSIONAL MISCONDUCT; VIRTUES;

EID: 0026032157     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.1991.00400030013003     Document Type: Article

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