investigates the effects of reducing cost sharing for outpatient services on hospital admissions by exploring a subsidy policy for … hospital admissions, although this effect varies by region. The subsidy reduces the number of overall admissions in low …

research between public institutions and hospitals is regarded to be crucial. We conducted an on-line survey among hospital … physicians. The results indicated that physicians in national/incorporated administrative agency hospitals seem to act as a …

The heart of the matter -- The evolution of the French medicine -- Coping with physicians' conflicts of interest in … United States, 1950-1980 -- The logic of medical markets : the United States, 1980 to the present -- Coping with physicians …' conflicts of interest in the United States -- The evolution of Japanese medicine -- Coping with physicians' conflicts of …

physicians' medical choices. These conflicts raise questions about physicians' loyalty to their patients and their professional …As most Americans know, conflicts of interest riddle the US health care system. They result from physicians practicing … medicine as entrepreneurs, from physicians' ties to pharma, and from investor-owned firms and insurers' influence over …