Is Self-Referral Associated with Higher Quality Care?

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Published in Health Serv Res on March 11, 2015

Authors

Craig Evan Pollack1, Afshin Rastegar2, Nancy L Keating3,4, John L Adams5, Maria Pisu6, Katherine L Kahn7,8

Author Affiliations

1: Division of General Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.
2: RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA.
3: Division of General Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA.
4: Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
5: Research & Evaluation, Kaiser Permanente, Pasadena, CA.
6: Division of Preventive Medicine and Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL.
7: Division of General Internal Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA.
8: RAND Corporation, Los Angeles, CA.

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