Die Gesichter der  dentalen Ketten

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doi:10.1007/s13279-019-0044-x

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“…The general tone in the literature reviewed was of a critical nature related to concerns about the demise of professional medical and self-employed managerial autonomy, and decision-making power being detached from physicians with PE involvement [ 27 , 28 , 29 , 30 , 31 , 32 , 33 , 34 , 35 , 36 , 37 ]. Correspondingly, Novice et al [ 36 ] found that physician autonomy was the most common concern expressed by 81% of 137 residents from dermatology residency programs in the US.…”

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“…Notably, the predominant perception was of a critical nature. Physicians feared the demise of their professional medical and self-employed managerial autonomy [ 27 , 28 , 29 , 30 , 31 , 32 , 33 , 34 , 35 , 36 , 37 ] and subsequently a potential deterioration of quality of care due to profit-oriented treatment choices. Thereby, an ideal image of the self-determined medical profession shapes the physicians and builds a root cause for their concerns when they encounter external economic interests in their profession [ 27 , 69 ].…”

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Physicians’ Perspectives Regarding Private Equity Transactions in Outpatient Health Care—A Scoping Review and Qualitative Analysis

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2022

IJERPH

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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.

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