Title |
Payments for care at private for-profit and private not-for-profit hospitals: a systematic review and meta-analysis
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Published in |
Canadian Medical Association Journal, June 2004
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DOI | 10.1503/cmaj.1040722 |
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Authors |
P J Devereaux, Diane Heels-Ansdell, Christina Lacchetti, Ted Haines, Karen E A Burns, Deborah J Cook, Nikila Ravindran, S D Walter, Heather McDonald, Samuel B Stone, Rakesh Patel, Mohit Bhandari, Holger J Schünemann, Peter T-L Choi, Ahmed M Bayoumi, John N Lavis, Terrence Sullivan, Greg Stoddart, Gordon H Guyatt |
Abstract |
It has been shown that patients cared for at private for-profit hospitals have higher risk-adjusted mortality rates than those cared for at private not-for-profit hospitals. Uncertainty remains, however, about the economic implications of these forms of health care delivery. Since some policy-makers might still consider for-profit health care if expenditure savings were sufficiently large, we undertook a systematic review and meta-analysis to compare payments for care at private for-profit and private not-for-profit hospitals. |
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Country | Count | As % |
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Canada | 35 | 44% |
Spain | 3 | 4% |
United States | 2 | 3% |
United Kingdom | 2 | 3% |
Japan | 1 | 1% |
Djibouti | 1 | 1% |
Unknown | 36 | 45% |
Demographic breakdown
Type | Count | As % |
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Members of the public | 68 | 85% |
Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 8 | 10% |
Scientists | 4 | 5% |
Mendeley readers
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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Canada | 3 | 2% |
India | 1 | <1% |
Uruguay | 1 | <1% |
Nigeria | 1 | <1% |
United States | 1 | <1% |
Unknown | 120 | 94% |
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Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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Student > Master | 24 | 19% |
Researcher | 20 | 16% |
Other | 11 | 9% |
Professor > Associate Professor | 11 | 9% |
Student > Ph. D. Student | 10 | 8% |
Other | 28 | 22% |
Unknown | 23 | 18% |
Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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Medicine and Dentistry | 43 | 34% |
Social Sciences | 12 | 9% |
Business, Management and Accounting | 10 | 8% |
Nursing and Health Professions | 6 | 5% |
Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 5 | 4% |
Other | 23 | 18% |
Unknown | 28 | 22% |