The actuarial basis for financial risk in practice-based commissioning and implications to managing budgets

Primary Health Care Research and Development

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 245-253

  Jones, Rod ^a  

^a Healthcare Analysis and Forecasting   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

budgets; chance; financial risk; PBC; risksharing; statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 85011525645     PISSN: 14634236     EISSN: 14771128     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1463423609990089     Document Type: Article

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