Prelude to a systematic review of activity-based funding of hospitals: potential effects on cost, quality, access, efficiency, and equity.

Karen S Palmer, Danielle Martin, Gordon Guyatt

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Article in Open medicine : a peer-reviewed, independent, open-access journal, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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4citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it

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1 · What the graph read from it

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.

2 · The registry

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.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

Activity-based funding of hospitals and its impact on mortality, readmission, discharge destination, severity of illness, and volume of care: a systematic review and meta-analysis.PloS one · 2014
Pooled it
Hospital funding reforms in Canada: a narrative review of Ontario and Quebec strategies.Health research policy and systems · 2022
Review
The Geography of Primary Hepatic Neoplasms Treatments in Canada: Changes in Latitudes and Changes in Attitudes.Canadian journal of gastroenterology & hepatology · 2017
Article
Review of Diagnosis-Related Group-Based Financing of Hospital Care.Health services research and managerial epidemiology
Article

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Karen S PalmerKaren S. Palmer is an Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences and the Faculty of Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia.

Danielle MartinDanielle Martin is Vice-President of Medical Affairs and Health System Solutions at Women's College Hospital and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine and the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario.

Gordon GuyattGordon Guyatt is a Professor in the Department of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario.

Funding

Canadian Institutes of Health Research

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Efficiency, OrganizationalHealthcare FinancingHospital CostsCanadaHealth Services AccessibilityHumansQuality of Health Care

Identifiers

PMID25237405

PMCPMC4161500

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