Substituting hospital-based outpatient cardiology care: The impact on quality, health and costs

Tessa C. C. Quanjel; Marieke D. Spreeuwenberg; Jeroen N. Struijs; Caroline A. Baan; Dirk Ruwaard

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0217923

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Substituting hospital-based outpatient cardiology care: The impact on quality, health and costs

Tessa C. C. Quanjel ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: t.quanjel@maastrichtuniversity.nl

Affiliation Department of Health Services Research, Care and Public Health Research Institute, Faculty of Health Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6103-363X

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Marieke D. Spreeuwenberg,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Health Services Research, Care and Public Health Research Institute, Faculty of Health Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands, Research Centre for Technology in Care, Zuyd University of Applied Sciences, Heerlen, the Netherlands
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Jeroen N. Struijs,

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department for Quality of Care and Health Economics, Centre for Nutrition, Prevention and Health Services, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, the Netherlands, Department for Public Health and Primary Care, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, the Netherlands
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Caroline A. Baan,

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department for Quality of Care and Health Economics, Centre for Nutrition, Prevention and Health Services, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, the Netherlands, Scientific Centre for Transformation in Care and Welfare (Tranzo), University of Tilburg, Tilburg, the Netherlands
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Dirk Ruwaard

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Health Services Research, Care and Public Health Research Institute, Faculty of Health Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands
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Substituting hospital-based outpatient cardiology care: The impact on quality, health and costs

Tessa C. C. Quanjel,
Marieke D. Spreeuwenberg,
Jeroen N. Struijs,
Caroline A. Baan,
Dirk Ruwaard

Published: May 31, 2019
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0217923

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