Do Italian regions eff ectively use DRG funding to steer provider behaviour?

Policy, Performance and Management in Governance and Intergovernmental Relations: Transatlantic Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 341-359

  Cantù, Elena ^a   Carbone, Clara ^a   Anessi Pessina, Eugenio ^b  

^a BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE   (Italy)

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