Physician Responses to Global Physician Expenditure Budgets in Canada: A Common Property Perspective

Milbank Quarterly

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 343-364

  Hurley, Jeremiah ^a   Lomas, Jonathan ^a   Goldsmith, Laurie J ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BUDGET; CANADA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PHYSICIAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICS;

ALBERTA; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BUDGETS; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; INSURANCE, PHYSICIAN SERVICES; NOVA SCOTIA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PHYSICIAN INCENTIVE PLANS; PHYSICIANS; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 0030634623     PISSN: 0887378X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0009.00059     Document Type: Article

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