Acknowledgments The authors wish to acknowledge the previous contributions of Drs. Eugene Braunwald, Joseph Perloff, Robert O’Rourke, and James A. Shaver, which laid the foundation for this chapter. Additional content is available online at Elsevier eBooks for Practicing Clinicians Evaluation…
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Additional content is available online at Elsevier eBooks for Practicing Clinicians What is Health Policy? Health policy is the collection of federal, state, and local statutes and regulations that determine the “rules of the game” in health care. Many of…
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