Physicians' working conditions and job satisfaction: does hospital ownership in Germany make a difference?
Open Access
- 13 August 2009
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in BMC Health Services Research
- Vol. 9 (1), 148
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-9-148
Abstract
A growing number of German hospitals have been privatized with the intention of increasing cost effectiveness and improving the quality of health care. Numerous studies investigated what possible qualitative and economic consequences these changes issues might have on patient care.Keywords
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