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General Introduction
incentivises providers to improve quality. Chapter 6 uses assisted reproduction in the Netherlands as a case study to test if hospitals can increase patient numbers by improving quality in a managed competition setting. Lastly, hospital costs and quality may be related to structural characteristics. New public management theory suggests that private hospitals might be more efficient than public hospitals. Chapter 7 researches this premise. Chapter 8 ends with a general discussion.
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