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Editorial
. 2016 Apr;17(3):229-33.
doi: 10.1007/s10198-015-0736-3.

Competition among health care providers: helpful or harmful?

Pedro Pita Barros  1 , Werner B F Brouwer  2 , Sarah Thomson  3 , Marco Varkevisser  4
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Editorial

Competition among health care providers: helpful or harmful?

Pedro Pita Barros et al. Eur J Health Econ. 2016 Apr.
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