Abstract
Hospitals play a central role in national health systems and reforms, as well as overall health system performance (Rechel et al. 2009). In Bulgaria, health reforms started in earnest in the late 1990s, with one of the reforms being the transformation of hospitals into for-profit organizations. The new legal status was associated with new ways of hospital financing and management and the aspiration to turn hospitals into autonomous ‘business units’ that achieve ‘effectiveness’.
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Georgieva, M., Moutafova, E. (2012). Hospital Performance Measurement in Bulgaria. In: Bartlett, W., Božikov, J., Rechel, B. (eds) Health Reforms in South East Europe. New Perspectives on South-East Europe Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137264770_10
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