Fads, Fallacies And Foolishness In Medical Care Management And Policy.
[Book]
Singapore :
World Scientific,
2007.
1 online resource (269 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface to Volume 3; Contents; Introduction to Volume 3 Ivan E. Brick, Tavy Ronen; List of Contributors; Section I -- Economics of Limit Orders; Section II -- Essays on Liquidity of Markets; Section III -- Market Rationality; Index.
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No one misses the onslaught of claims about reforming modern medical care. How doctors should be paid, how hospitals should be paid or governed, how much patients should pay when sick in co-payments, how the quality of care could be improved, and how governments and other buyers could better control the costs of care all find expression in the explosion of medical care conference proceedings, op-eds, news bulletins, journal articles, and books. This collection of articles takes up a key set of what the author regards as particularly misleading fads and fashions developments that produce a.
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Managed care plans (Medical care)
Medical economics.
Medical policy.
Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena