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Comparative Study
. 2005 Mar 5;330(7490):530-3.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7490.530.

What can the UK and US health systems learn from each other?

Lois Quam  1 , Richard Smith
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Comparative Study

What can the UK and US health systems learn from each other?

Lois Quam et al. BMJ. .

Abstract

The NHS and US insurance based health systems seem worlds apart. Despite the differences, each has much to learn from examples of good practice in the other

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Risk adjusted mortality from cancer against length of stay for institutions in New York State. The size of the circle indicates the number of patients treated
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Number of procedures against one year survival for centres performing heart transplantation in the United States
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Annual expenditure per employee on information and communication technology in United Kingdom in different economic sectors, 2000
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