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Activity-based payments and reforms of the English hospital payment system

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 2007

RANDALL P. ELLIS  and
MARIAN VIDAL-FERNÁNDEZ
RANDALL P. ELLIS*
Affiliation:
Economics Department, Boston University, USA
MARIAN VIDAL-FERNÁNDEZ
Affiliation:
Economics Department, Boston University, USA
*
*Correspondence to: Professor Randall Ellis, Economics Department, Boston University, 270 Bay State Road, Boston, MA 02215, USA. Email: ellisrp@bu.edu
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Health Economics, Policy and Law , Volume 2 , Issue 4 , October 2007 , pp. 435 - 444
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