Medicinsk turisme stortrives, og det har konsekvenser for patienter og sygehusvæsener verden over

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  • Kristine Sorgenfri Hansen
Medical tourism and its implications for patients and hospital services throughout the world.
This article provides a snapshot of global medical tourism and its positive and negative implications for healthcare around the world presented through selected examples. Medical tourism is an old phenomenon which has seen a rapid increase due to global technological advances thus enabling people to receive treatment anywhere in the world, often combined with a tropical vacation. Treatments are of a non-acute, voluntary nature and are driven largely by high prices and long waiting lists at the home countries and low prices and high service quality at the destination country.
Translated title of the contributionMedical tourism is thriving and that has consequences for patients and healthcare systems worldwide
Original languageDanish
Article numberV03170209
JournalUgeskrift for Laeger
Volume179
Issue number10
Pages (from-to)888-891
Number of pages4
ISSN0041-5782
Publication statusPublished - 15 May 2017

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