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Does Hospital Competition Save Lives? Evidence from the English NHS Patient Choice Reforms*

Recent substantive reforms to the English National Health Service expanded patient choice and encouraged hospitals to compete within a market with fixed prices. This study investigates whether these reforms led to improvements in hospital quality. We use a difference-in-difference-style estimator to...

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Autores principales: Cooper, Zack, Gibbons, Stephen, Jones, Simon, McGuire, Alistair
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4373154/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25821239
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0297.2011.02449.x