Qualitative analysis of direction of public hospital reforms in China

Frontiers of Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 218-223

  Zhao, Dahai ^a   Zhang, Zhiruo ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

government hospital; operation mechanism; public funding; public hospital

Indexed keywords

CHINA; FUNDING; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERVIEW; PHYSICIAN; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; CLASSIFICATION; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; TRENDS;

CHINA; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH CARE REFORM; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HUMANS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

EID: 85021797943     PISSN: 20950217     EISSN: 20950225     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11684-017-0534-7     Document Type: Article

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