Case-studies of displacement effects in Dutch hospital care

• Main Authors: Joost Johan Godert Wammes (Author), Geert Frederix (Author), Paulien Govaert (Author), Domino Determann (Author), Silvia Evers (Author), Aggie Paulus (Author), Niek Stadhouders (Author), Patrick Jeurissen (Author), Wija Oortwijn (Author), Eddy M. M. Adang (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2020-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Under a constrained health care budget, cost-increasing technologies may displace funds from existing health services. However, it is unknown what services are displaced and how such displacement takes place in practice. The aim of our study was to investigate how the Dutch hospi...