The high costs of for-profit care.

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Is the quality of primary healthcare services influenced by the healthcare centre's type of ownership?-An observational study of patient perceived quality, prescription rates and follow-up routines in privately and publicly owned primary care centres.BMC health services research · 2015
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2. Payments and quality of care in private for-profit and public hospitals in Greece.BMC health services research · 2011
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3. The English market model is not fit for export.International psychiatry : bulletin of the Board of International Affairs of the Royal College of Psychiatrists · 2011
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4. Does type of hospital ownership influence physicians' daily work schedules? An observational real-time study in German hospital departments.Human resources for health · 2009
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5. Private health insurance: in one door and out the other?CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2005
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7. Association of Trauma Alert Response Charges With Volume and Hospital Ownership Type in Florida.Health services research and managerial epidemiology
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Corrections and comments

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  Payments for care at private for-profit and private not-for-profit hospitals: a systematic review and meta-analysis.2004

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Funding

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Abstract

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