Supply sensitive services in Swiss ambulatory care: An analysis of basic health insurance records for 2003-2007

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Busato, André ^a   Matter, Pius ^a   Künzi, Beat ^b   Goodman, David C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b Swisspep Institute for Quality and Research in Healthcare   (Switzerland)

^c DARTMOUTH INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH POLICY AND CLINICAL PRACTICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBULATORY CARE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMICS; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL FEE; MEDICINE; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; SWITZERLAND; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AMBULATORY CARE; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DECISION MAKING; FEE-FOR-SERVICE PLANS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; INSURANCE, HEALTH; MALE; MEDICINE; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 78549242361     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-10-315     Document Type: Article

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