title: [Comments on the French inpatient system].
abstract: This article provides a comparative analysis of two different inpatient systems: referral hospitals and health centres, with particular reference to the French experience. For having stayed unreformed for the past 50 years, the French hospital system is now facing a financial crisis, as well as a human resource crisis. By comparison, positive lessons can be drawn from the experience of health centres. Such observations can be useful for developing and emerging countries.
authors.affiliation: CNRS, 27, rue Paul-Bert, 94204 Ivry-sur-Seine, France. bauchet@ivry.cnrs.fr
authors.forename: Pierre
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bauchet
mesh_terms: D017281:Cost of Illness; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards*; D003906:Developing Countries; D005602:France; D006760:Hospitalization / Q000191:economics* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D007297:Inpatients