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Discusses the choice of research design in light of the aims of the book. On the basis of the extent of hospital management autonomy and decentralization, he distinguishes between four cases: an NPM case characterized by high hospital management autonomy and decentralization—Estonia, a non-NPM case (low hospital management and centralization)—Romania 1 and two mixed cases—Norway and Romania 2 characterized by a combination of the degree of hospital management autonomy and decentralization. He then discusses the research methods and data collection, which consists of primary and secondary sources and notes that a program of in-depth interviews was conducted in each country case.
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Dan, S. (2017). Research Design. In: The Coordination of European Public Hospital Systems. Public Sector Organizations. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43428-5_4
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