Strategic purchasing should lead to a maximization of overall health gain from available resources (i.e., increased allocative efficiency). It addresses one of the main problems traditionally encountered by health planners: bridging the gap between plans and the budgetary allocation of resources.
HealthcarePapers, vol. 8, no. sp, 2007, pp. 62–76., doi:10.12927/hcpap.2007.19221.
Publication Year:
2007
Publisher
TU Berlin
Author:
Busse, Reinhard, et al.