TY - JOUR AU - Yang, Lianping AU - Huang, Cunrui AU - Liu, Chaojie PY - 2017 DA - 2017/11/14 TI - Distribution of essential medicines to primary care institutions in Hubei of China: effects of centralized procurement arrangements JO - BMC Health Services Research SP - 727 VL - 17 IS - 1 AB - Poor distribution of essential medicines to primary care institutions has attracted criticism since China adopted provincial centralized regional tendering and procurement systems. This study evaluated the impact of new procurement arrangements that limit the number of distributors at the county level in Hubei province, China. SN - 1472-6963 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-017-2720-3 DO - 10.1186/s12913-017-2720-3 ID - Yang2017 ER -