title: CMA-cosponsored conference raises many questions about future of regionalized health care.
abstract: Is regionalization better because it's cheaper? Or because it provides better outcomes? Or simply because it's different from whatever went before? Those were some of the questions asked during a recent conference cosponsored by the CMA and Queen's University. With each successive speaker, says Charlotte Gray, the message became clearer: there are more muddled theories behind the trend and more pitfalls ahead than planners ever expected when they embarked on the exercise to decentralize health care in Canada and elsewhere.
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authors.lastname: Gray
mesh_terms: D002170:Canada; D018166:Health Care Reform; D006296:Health Services / Q000639:trends; D006298:Health Services Administration; D009313:National Health Programs / Q000639:trends*; D012040:Regional Health Planning; D012041:Regional Medical Programs / Q000639:trends*