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Impact of removing prescription co-payments on the use of costly health services: a pragmatic randomised controlled trial

OBJECTIVES: To determine whether exempting people (with high health needs and living in areas of high deprivation) from a $5 prescription charge reduces hospital use. DESIGN: Two-group parallel prospective randomised controlled trial. SETTING: People living in the community in various regions of New...

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Autores principales: Norris, Pauline, Cousins, Kim, Horsburgh, Simon, Keown, Shirley, Churchward, Marianna, Samaranayaka, Ariyapala, Smith, Alesha, Marra, Carlo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9839957/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36641460
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-022-09011-0