Profession, practice and profits: Competition in the core of health care system

Systems Research and Behavioral Science

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 409-421

  Polder, Johan J ^a   Hoogland, Jan ^b   Jochemsen, Henk ^c   Strijbos, Sytse ^b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c Rotterdam ^*

Author keywords

Competition; Efficiency; Governance problem; Health care system; Medical practice; Medical profession; Transaction costs

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031279677     PISSN: 10927026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1743(199711/12)14:6<409::AID-SRES129>3.0.CO;2-I     Document Type: Article

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