Rising co-payments coincide with unwanted effects on continuity of healthcare for patients with schizophrenia in the Netherlands.

<h4>Background</h4>Co-payments, used to control rising costs of healthcare, may lead to disruption of appropriate outpatient care and to increases in acute crisis treatment or hospital admission in patients with schizophrenia. An abrupt rise in co-payments in 2012 in the Netherlands offe...

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Main Authors: Arnold P M van der Lee, Lieuwe de Haan, Aartjan T F Beekman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0222046