Bazyar, Mohammad
Yazdi-Feyzabadi, Vahid http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8009-470X
Rahimi, Nouroddin
Rashidian, Arash
Funding for this research was provided by:
Tehran University of medical sciences (9821860001)
Article History
Received: 2 March 2020
Accepted: 20 August 2020
First Online: 31 August 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The ethics committee of Tehran University of Medical Sciences approved this study with ethical approval code 8921860001. The consent we obtained from the study participants was verbal, and the institutional review board approved the use of verbal consent.
: We got the consent of the interviewees to participate and record their voices and for direct quotes from their interviews to be published in this manuscript with the protection of their anonymity and confidentiality.
: Although Dr. Rahimi, the co-author of this manuscript, is one of the key policy actors and quite familiar with the health financing system in Iran, he just helped us clarify the advantages and disadvantages of merging proposed by the respondents. No overstatement or understatement was made in citing the benefits and drawbacks of merging. All other authors declare that they have no competing interests.