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This book explores both theoretically and empirically the unprecedented wave of management reforms in public hospitals in Europe over the past 25 years. It carefully examines the ways in which these reforms have influenced the ability of national policy-making institutions to manage the system of public hospitals as a whole. The book covers key public management reforms in a highly- relevant and salient policy area that has been and continues to be under much scrutiny. By using a comparative design and original empirical data, it investigates case studies on which little research has so far been published in English and for an international audience.
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Dan, S. (2017). Introduction. In: The Coordination of European Public Hospital Systems. Public Sector Organizations. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43428-5_1
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