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. 2019 Jan;112(1):6-10.
doi: 10.1177/0141076818816935. Epub 2018 Dec 3.

Competition in health markets: is something rotten?

Livio Garattini  1 , Anna Padula  1
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Competition in health markets: is something rotten?

Livio Garattini et al. J R Soc Med. 2019 Jan.
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Figure 1.
Figure 1.
Number of studies conducted in European health care settings referring to competition in the title (1993-2017)*. *We searched the PubMed international database to select all articles including the key-words `competition' OR `market' AND `health' OR `healthcare' in their title. From the 272 studies conducted in European settings initially identified, 112 were not relevant to our scope, so we finally selected 160 articles.
Figure 2.
Figure 2.
. Health Care Expenditure (2016). Source: https://stats.oecd.org/. Health expenditure and financing, 2016. Exchange rate (December 2016): 1GBP=1,1734EUR; 1USD=0,9487EUR.
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