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      Do doctors respond to financial incentives? UK family doctors and the GP fundholder scheme

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      Journal of Public Economics
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              Explaining variations in inpatient length of stay in the National Health Service.

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                Journal
                Journal of Public Economics
                Journal of Public Economics
                Elsevier BV
                00472727
                February 2001
                February 2001
                : 79
                : 2
                : 375-398
                Article
                10.1016/S0047-2727(00)00074-8
                303bd356-63d2-49fa-9269-dc8559643844
                © 2001

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