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30.04.2018 | Editorial

It Is Time to Liberate Hospitals from Profit-Centered Care

verfasst von: Sidney M. Wolfe, M.D., Steffie Woolhandler, M.D., M.P.H., David U. Himmelstein, M.D.

Erschienen in: Journal of General Internal Medicine | Ausgabe 7/2018

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The way we pay hospitals is toxic. It rewards, indeed requires, bad behavior from hospital leaders and stifles the better angels of their nature. …

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Titel: It Is Time to Liberate Hospitals from Profit-Centered Care
verfasst von: Sidney M. Wolfe, M.D.
Steffie Woolhandler, M.D., M.P.H.
David U. Himmelstein, M.D.
Publikationsdatum: 30.04.2018
Verlag: Springer US
Erschienen in: Journal of General Internal Medicine / Ausgabe 7/2018
Print ISSN: 0884-8734
Elektronische ISSN: 1525-1497
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-018-4448-0

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