Quality health care in the European Union thanks to competition law.
There are many biases concerning the application of competition law in health care. Quality concerns can however be integrated into competition law analysis. The aim of this paper is to identify the links between the application of competition law in the European Union and the right to quality health care and to point out the problems that arise when integrating quality concerns in competition law analysis. Guidelines must be issued and competition authorities must work together with institutions that have expertise in the field of health care quality measurement in order to integrate these dimensions in competition practice.
Fornaciari
Diego
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KU Leuven, Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law, Kapucijnenvoer 35, 3000 Leuven, Belgium. Diego.Fornaciari@med.kuleuven.be
D004465:Economic Competition; D004526:Efficiency; D005062:European Union; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*