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Purchasing medical devices: The role of buyer competence and discretion()

This paper investigates the price variability of standardized medical devices purchased by Italian Public Buyers (PBs). A semiparametric approach is used to recover the marginal cost of each device. Average prices vary substantially between PBs; we show that most of the difference between the purcha...

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Autores principales: Bucciol, Alessandro, Camboni, Riccardo, Valbonesi, Paola
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier B.V. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7448819/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33049555
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2020.102370