Gatekeeping in German Primary Health Care - Impacts on Coordination of Care, Quality Indicators and Ambulatory Costs
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Keywords
primary health care; gatekeeping; health care quality;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I10 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - General
- I11 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Analysis of Health Care Markets
- I13 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Insurance, Public and Private
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EUR-2016-12-04 (Microeconomic European Issues)
- NEP-HEA-2016-12-04 (Health Economics)
- NEP-IAS-2016-12-04 (Insurance Economics)
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