The medical assistance system and inpatient health care provision: Empirical evidence from short-term hospitalizations in Japan.

This paper uses two nationally representative sets of medical claims data from medical assistance and universal public health insurance systems to examine how medical assistance system assignment affects short-term inpatient health care provision. In Japan, the medical assistance system, which is pa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Michio Yuda
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6171890?pdf=render