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. 2016 Apr 19;13(4):e1001995.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001995. eCollection 2016 Apr.

Observational Evidence of For-Profit Delivery and Inferior Nursing Home Care: When Is There Enough Evidence for Policy Change?

Lisa A Ronald  1 , Margaret J McGregor  1 , Charlene Harrington  2 , Allyson Pollock  3   4 , Joel Lexchin  5   6
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Observational Evidence of For-Profit Delivery and Inferior Nursing Home Care: When Is There Enough Evidence for Policy Change?

Lisa A Ronald et al. PLoS Med. .

Abstract

Margaret McGregor and colleagues consider Bradford Hill's framework for examining causation in observational research for the association between nursing home care quality and for-profit ownership.

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