Assessing hospital competition when prices don’t matter to patients: the use of time-elasticities

Marco Varkevisser1, Stéphanie A. van der Geest1, Erik Schut1
1Institute of Health Policy & Management (iBMG), Erasmus University Rotterdam, P.O. Box 1738, Room J8-03, 3000 DR, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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