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- Title
For-profit treatment centers: trailblazing a new model of care?
- Authors
Fintor, Lou; Fintor, L
- Abstract
Reports on the effect on patient care of the merger of American Oncology Resources and the Physicians Reliance Network Inc. to form US Oncology, a for-profit cancer treatment management company, in the United States. Views on the merger; Effects of the proposed changes to the Medicare reimbursement system; Ethical concerns surrounding the merger.
- Subjects
UNITED States; MEDICAL care; PHYSICIANS Resource Group Inc.; CANCER treatment; HOSPITAL mergers; AMERICAN Oncology Resources Inc.; TUMOR treatment; OUTPATIENT medical care; CLINICAL trials; TUMORS; COMMUNITY health services; MEDICAL quality control; MEDICAL ethics; PATIENT advocacy; PRIVATE sector; SPECIALTY hospitals; ECONOMICS; STANDARDS
- Publication
JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 1999, Vol 91, Issue 15, p1272
- ISSN
0027-8874
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1093/jnci/91.15.1272