title: Consumers' increasing influence on health care.
abstract: The individual consumer's new predominance in the health care marketplace is increasingly influencing policy, strategy, operations, and investment decisions of health care organizations within all segments of the industry. A recent survey has some surprising things to say about the consumer's increasingly influential role.
authors: KPMG Peat Marwick LLP, USA.
authors: R
authors: R
authors: D'Amaro
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003256:Community Participation / Q000706:statistics & numerical data* / Q000639:trends; D003258:Consumer Behavior; D019981:Health Care Sector / Q000639:trends*; D019538:Health Care Surveys; D006801:Humans; D014481:United States