Academic Journal
Physicians’ Perspectives Regarding Private Equity Transactions in Outpatient Health Care—A Scoping Review and Qualitative Analysis
العنوان: | Physicians’ Perspectives Regarding Private Equity Transactions in Outpatient Health Care—A Scoping Review and Qualitative Analysis |
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المؤلفون: | Tim N. Nolte, Felix Miedaner, Sandra Sülz |
المصدر: | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol 19, Iss 15480, p 15480 (2022) |
بيانات النشر: | MDPI AG |
سنة النشر: | 2022 |
المجموعة: | Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles |
مصطلحات موضوعية: | private equity, outpatient health care, physician, Medicine |
الوصف: | Private equity (PE) investments in health care have increased drastically over the last decade, and the profit interests of these companies have triggered a vivid discussion among medical professions. However, what are the key underlying perceptions among physicians regarding this trend? Unravelling the argumentative structure of this debate is the purpose of this paper. With physicians being a major stakeholder group in the outpatient health care setting, this paper explores physicians’ perspectives regarding increasing PE activities. We systematically searched, selected, and synthesized existing knowledge in a scoping review and complemented the findings through 14 semi-structured interviews with physicians working in the outpatient health care sector in Germany. The results outline a complex network of arguments, concerns, and fears whereby the first intuitive perception of physicians is of critical nature. Arguments cluster around central perceptions of how PE involvement affects the individual autonomy of physicians in their daily work and decision-making, the impact on quality of care, work-life balance considerations, PE investment strategies, lack of medical vs. managerial expertise, and taxation issues. The high number of opinion papers among the literature underlines the actuality of the topic and emphasizes the need for empirical research. |
نوع الوثيقة: | article in journal/newspaper |
اللغة: | English |
تدمد: | 1660-4601 1661-7827 |
Relation: | https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/19/23/15480; https://doaj.org/toc/1661-7827; https://doaj.org/toc/1660-4601; https://doaj.org/article/12c123f2c9f04b69bd118bc09d61576e |
DOI: | 10.3390/ijerph192315480 |
الاتاحة: | https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192315480 https://doaj.org/article/12c123f2c9f04b69bd118bc09d61576e |
رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.57CC7754 |
قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
تدمد: | 16604601 16617827 |
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DOI: | 10.3390/ijerph192315480 |