ArticleHealth services research2015
How Financial and Reputational Incentives Can Be Used to Improve Medical Care.
Article in Health services research, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06829589 (Assessment of the Retrieval of Economic Incentives and Information Provision on Quality-of-care Indicators for Primary Care Professionals), which is not on this map. Cited by 30 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Assessment of the Retrieval of Economic Incentives and Information Provision on Quality-of-care Indicators for Primary Care Professionals
Who cites it
30 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Effectiveness of UK provider financial incentives on quality of care: a systematic review.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2017Pooled it
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- From class consciousness to class suicide: considering community integration as a primary care ethic.Family medicine and community health · 2026Article
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- The impact of remuneration, extrinsic and intrinsic incentives on interprofessional primary care teams: results from a rapid scoping review.BMC primary care · 2025Article
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- Information provision and financial incentives in Catalonia's public primary care (2010-2019): an interrupted time series analysis.The Lancet regional health. Europe · 2024Article
- Financing the "Village": Establishing a Sustainable Financial System for Child Behavioral Health.Child and adolescent psychiatric clinics of North America · 2024Review
- Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Local Primary Care Incentive Scheme: A Difference-in-Differences Study.Medical care research and review : MCRR · 2022Article
- Accounting for past patient composition in evaluations of quality reporting.Health services research · 2022Article
- The Lancet Global Health Commission on financing primary health care: putting people at the centre.The Lancet. Global health · 2022Review
- Framework for identification and measurement of spillover effects in policy implementation: intended non-intended targeted non-targeted spillovers (INTENTS).Implementation science communications · 2022Article
- Association of Primary Care Physician Compensation Incentives and Quality of Care in the United States, 2012-2016.Journal of general internal medicine · 2022Article
- Post-discharge care following acute kidney injury: quality improvement in primary care.BMJ open quality · 2020Article
- Provider Perspectives on Quality Payment Programs Targeting Diabetes in Primary Care Settings.Population health management · 2019Article
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Abstract
objectivesNarrative review of the impact of pay-for-performance (P4P) and public reporting (PR) on health care outcomes, including spillover effects and impact on disparities. PRINCIPAL
findingsThe impact of P4P and PR is dependent on the underlying payment system (fee-for-service, salary, capitation) into which these schemes are introduced. Both have the potential to improve care, but they can also have substantial unintended consequences. Evidence from the behavioral economics literature suggests that individual physicians will vary in how they respond to incentives. We also discuss issues to be considered when including patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) or patient-reported experience measures into P4P and PR schemes.
conclusionWe provide guidance to payers and policy makers on the design of P4P and PR programs so as to maximize their benefits and minimize their unintended consequences. These include involving clinicians in the design of the program, taking into account the payment system into which new incentives are introduced, designing the structure of reward programs to maximize the likelihood of intended outcomes and minimize the likelihood of unintended consequences, designing schemes that minimize the risk of increasing disparities, providing stability of incentives over some years, and including outcomes that are relevant to patients' priorities. In addition, because of the limitations of PR and P4P as effective interventions in their own right, it is important that they are combined with other policies and interventions intended to improve quality to maximize their likely impact.
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