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Health-care competition: Can Britain’s experience help Canada?

Friday, October 19th, 2012

Oct. 19 2012
More patients chose – with the help of their GPs – to go to better hospitals… Hospitals in areas where patients had more choice had greater improvements in clinical quality (measured by lower death rates after admission) and greater reductions in lengths of stay than hospitals in less competitive areas… better management is associated with better outcomes in NHS hospitals and that management tends to be better when hospitals compete with each other.

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