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Article: Recent findings from McMaster University highlight research in rehabilitation research.
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- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- May 13, 2009
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"A ''managed competition'' model was introduced in the Canadian province of Ontario as part of the government's reform of home care. With this model, it was assumed that competitive forces would encourage quality while driving down costs," scientists writing in the journal Canadian Public Administration - Administration Publique du Canada report (see also Rehabilitation Research).
"While such reforms often achieve cost controls by constraining the incomes and practices of health-care workers, there has been relatively little analysis of the extent to which self-governing health-care professionals, particularly those outside of medicine and nursing, may ...