Unregulated private markets for health care in Canada? Rules of professional misconduct, physician kickbacks and physician self-referral

CMAJ. Canadian Medical Association Journal

Volumn 170, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1115-1118

  Choudhry, Sujit ^a,b   Choudhry, Niteesh K ^c,d,e   Brown, Adalsteinn D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b at the University of Toronto Wagner is also a faculty member of the Canadian Medical Associations' Physician Management Institute   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANADA; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL FEE; NOTE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROFESSIONAL MISCONDUCT;

EID: 1842454025     PISSN: 08203946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.1031363     Document Type: Note

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