Patient Choice Has Become the Standard Practice in Healthcare Provision: It is Time to Extend its Meaning; Comment on “Is Patient Choice the Future of Health Care Systems?”
The key argument of this commentary is that patient choice has a broader meaning than suggested by consumerist choice models. In increasingly marketized health care systems with diversified and knowledge-based service arrangements, patients are continuously obliged to choose insurers, physicians or...
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| Language: | English |
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Kerman University of Medical Sciences
2013-01-01
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| Series: | International Journal of Health Policy and Management |
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| Online Access: | http://ijhpm.com/?_action=showPDF&article=2772&_ob=154b3361428f6e3f2a4209f168d95f84&fileName=full_text.pdf. |