Does hospital competition improve the quality of outpatient care? - empirical evidence from a quasi-experiment in a Chinese city
Abstract Background Although countries worldwide have launched a series of pro-competition reforms, the literature on the impacts of hospital competition has produced a complex and contradictory picture. This study examined whether hospital competition contributed to an increase in the quality of ou...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2024-06-01
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| Series: | Health Economics Review |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s13561-024-00516-4 |