TY  - JOUR
T1  - HEalth care as a “market good”? appendicitis as a case study
AU  - Hsia RY, Kothari AH, Srebotnjak T, Maselli J
Y1  - 2012/05/28
N1  - 10.1001/archinternmed.2012.1173
JO  - Archives of Internal Medicine
SP  - 818
EP  - 819
VL  - 172
IS  - 10
N2  - 
Consumer-driven health care has emerged as a new paradigm in allowing patients to have a stronger say in how their health care dollars are spent.1 Patients are encouraged to consider medical care a commodity that can be bought and sold. Yet health care is a unique industry in which many traditional market principles fail. Consumers of health care do not always have good information about their condition and rely on the advice of professionals. Moreover, studies have shown that total costs and charges at different health care facilities vary substantially for what should be similar services.2

SN  - 0003-9926
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archinternmed.2012.1173
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinternmed.2012.1173
ER  -