Physicians' Perspectives Regarding Private Equity Transactions in Outpatient Health Care-A Scoping Review and Qualitative Analysis.

ABSTRACT: Private equity (PE) investments in health care have increased drastically over the last decade, and the profit interests of these companies have triggered a vivid discussion among medical professions. However, what are the key underlying perceptions among physicians regarding this trend? Unravelling the argumentative structure of this debate is the purpose of this paper. With physicians being a major stakeholder group in the outpatient health care setting, this paper explores physicians' perspectives regarding increasing PE activities. We systematically searched, selected, and synthesized existing knowledge in a scoping review and complemented the findings through 14 semi-structured interviews with physicians working in the outpatient health care sector in Germany. The results outline a co

SUBMITTER: Nolte TN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9737937 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature