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Quality Health Care in the European Union Thanks to Competition Law

There are many biases concerning the application of competition law in health care. Quality concerns can however be integrated into competition law analysis. The aim of this paper is to identify the links between the application of competition law in the European Union and the right to quality healt...

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Autor principal: Fornaciari, Diego
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI) 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2819771/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20195428
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph7010001
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description There are many biases concerning the application of competition law in health care. Quality concerns can however be integrated into competition law analysis. The aim of this paper is to identify the links between the application of competition law in the European Union and the right to quality health care and to point out the problems that arise when integrating quality concerns in competition law analysis. Guidelines must be issued and competition authorities must work together with institutions that have expertise in the field of health care quality measurement in order to integrate these dimensions in competition practice.
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spelling pubmed-28197712010-03-01 Quality Health Care in the European Union Thanks to Competition Law Fornaciari, Diego Int J Environ Res Public Health Article There are many biases concerning the application of competition law in health care. Quality concerns can however be integrated into competition law analysis. The aim of this paper is to identify the links between the application of competition law in the European Union and the right to quality health care and to point out the problems that arise when integrating quality concerns in competition law analysis. Guidelines must be issued and competition authorities must work together with institutions that have expertise in the field of health care quality measurement in order to integrate these dimensions in competition practice. Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI) 2010-01 2009-12-24 /pmc/articles/PMC2819771/ /pubmed/20195428 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph7010001 Text en © 2010 by the authors; licensee Molecular Diversity Preservation International, Basel, Switzerland. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 This article is an open-access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2819771/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20195428
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph7010001
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