Physician induced demand for knee replacement surgery in Iran
Abstract Background The structure of the Iranian health system has raised this hypothesis that a part of the Knee Replacement Surgery (KRS) services are provided due to Physician-Induced Demand (PID). Methods This paper used an unbalanced individual panel data covering the steady-state 15,729 KRSs p...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2021-08-01
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| Series: | BMC Health Services Research |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-021-06697-6 |