Do health reforms impact cost consciousness of health care professionals? Results from a Nation-wide survey in the Balkans

Balkan Medical Journal

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 8-17

  Jakovljevic, Mihajlo ^a   Vukovic, Mira ^b   Chen, Chia Ching ^c   Antunovic, Mirjana ^d   Dragojevic Simic, Viktorija ^d   Velickovic Radovanovic, Radmila ^e   Djendji, Mladenovic Siladji ^f   Jankovic, Nikola ^a   Rankovic, Ana ^g   Kovacevic, Aleksandra ^d   Antunovic, Marko ^d   Milovanovic, Olivera ^a   Markovic, Veroljub ^a   Dasari, Babu N S ^h   Yamada, Tetsuji ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KRAGUJEVAC   (Serbia)

^b Health Centre   (Serbia)

^c NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DEFENCE   (Serbia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NI   (Serbia)

^f Surgical Dept   (Serbia)

^g University Clinical Center Kragujevac   (Serbia)

^h Center for Children and Childhood Studies   (United States)

Author keywords

Awareness; Cost control; Economics; Government; Health care reform; Hospital costs; Medical; Physicians JEL code: I180 Health; Policy; Practice patterns

Indexed keywords

AWARENESS; BUDGET; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; COST CONTROL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DENTIST; DIAGNOSIS; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; IMAGING; INTERNIST; INTERVIEW; LANGUAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE; PERCEPTION; PHARMACY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCRIPTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; STUDY DESIGN;

EID: 84957803160     PISSN: 21463123     EISSN: 21463131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5152/balkanmedj.2015.15869     Document Type: Article

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