Decommissioning in a local healthcare system in Sweden: responses to fiscal stress

Abstract Background Drawing on the literature on cutback management, this article deals with healthcare decommissioning in times of austerity. Politicians and decision-makers are typically reluctant to decommission healthcare, and if they do, the public generally reacts strongly towards reductions i...

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Main Authors: Linda Moberg, Mio Fredriksson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-06-01
Series:BMC Health Services Research
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12913-020-05328-w