gatekeeping
- Subj. Area:
- VIII Health Care and Health Economics
- Ger:
- Gatekeeping
- Fr:
- médiateur
- SN:
- The controlling of access to health services, usually by primary care physicians or nurses; often used by managed care programmes to discourage use of expensive services and referrals (based on Bioethics)
- RT:
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managed care programmes
resource allocation
- Conc:
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B: Gatekeeping
E: gatekeeping
I: -
M: Gatekeeping (D020793)
