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Howard Catton and Judith Shamian on the need to recognise the importance of having nurse leaders at government level around the world.

Objective To review the evidence on trends and impacts of private equity (PE) ownership of healthcare operators. Design Systematic review. Data sources PubMed, Web of Science, Embase, Scopus, and SSRN. Eligibility criteria for study selection Empirical research studies of any design that evaluated PE owned healthcare operators. Main outcome measures The main outcome measures were impact of PE ownership on health outcomes, costs to patients or payers, costs to operators, and quality. The secondar...