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Can We Expect Results-Based Financing to Improve Quality of Care?

Performance-based incentives as currently employed appear poorly adapted for improving quality of clinical processes. They mainly measure structural items that, while easier to measure, are remote from actual clinical quality, and they could even perversely lead to heightened attention to those fact...

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Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Global Health: Science and Practice 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5493447/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28298339
http://dx.doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-17-00069
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spelling pubmed-54934472017-07-05 Can We Expect Results-Based Financing to Improve Quality of Care? Glob Health Sci Pract Editorial Performance-based incentives as currently employed appear poorly adapted for improving quality of clinical processes. They mainly measure structural items that, while easier to measure, are remote from actual clinical quality, and they could even perversely lead to heightened attention to those factors at the expense of clinical quality. Global Health: Science and Practice 2017-03-15 /pmc/articles/PMC5493447/ /pubmed/28298339 http://dx.doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-17-00069 Text en © Global Health: Science and Practice. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly cited. To view a copy of the license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/. When linking to this article, please use the following permanent link: https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-17-00069
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Can We Expect Results-Based Financing to Improve Quality of Care?
title Can We Expect Results-Based Financing to Improve Quality of Care?
title_full Can We Expect Results-Based Financing to Improve Quality of Care?
title_fullStr Can We Expect Results-Based Financing to Improve Quality of Care?
title_full_unstemmed Can We Expect Results-Based Financing to Improve Quality of Care?
title_short Can We Expect Results-Based Financing to Improve Quality of Care?
title_sort can we expect results-based financing to improve quality of care?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5493447/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28298339
http://dx.doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-17-00069