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?"

• Autore principale: Benjamin Ewert (Autore)
• Natura: Libro
• Pubblicazione: Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Soggetti: article
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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...