The double edged sword of performance measurement.

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

1. Implementation Processes and Pay for Performance in Healthcare: A Systematic Review.Journal of general internal medicine · 2016
   Pooled it
2. Does the engagement of clinicians and organisations in research improve healthcare performance: a three-stage review.BMJ open · 2015
   Pooled it
3. The Surgical Care Improvement Project Antibiotic Guidelines: Should We Expect More Than Good Intentions?Anesthesia and analgesia · 2015
   Article
4. Effects of performance measure implementation on clinical manager and provider motivation.Journal of general internal medicine · 2014
   Article
5. Getting performance metrics right: a qualitative study of staff experiences implementing and measuring practice transformation.Journal of general internal medicine · 2014
   Observational
6. Quality indicators and performance measures in diabetes care.Current diabetes reports · 2014
   Review
7. Should key performance indicators be a component of performance assessment for individual clinical pharmacists?The Canadian journal of hospital pharmacy · 2014
   Article
8. "Salt in the Wound": Safety Net Clinician Perspectives on Performance Feedback Derived From EHR Data.The Journal of ambulatory care management
   Article

Corrections and comments

• Comment on
  Unintended consequences of implementing a national performance measurement system into local practice.2012

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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