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The Tougher the Better: The Effect of GP Performance Thresholds in Scotland
20 April 2012
…rewards GPs based on performance on specific indicators. Yan Feng General Practitioners (GPs) in the NHS are paid based on a mix of factors, including a pay-for-performance element, the…
Using Performance Thresholds to Affect GP Behaviour: Evidence from Scotland
4 March 2014
…practitioners (GPs) are paid based on a mix of factors, including a pay-for-performance element, the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF), which was introduced in 2004. QOF rewards GPs according to performance…
The Tougher the Better: The Effect of an Increased Performance Threshold on the Performance of General Practitioners
4 January 2012
…in fact improved GP performance and whether the impact differed across GPs. Specifically, they examine whether low-, mid- and high-performing GPs changed behaviour and, if so, to what extent. A…
Performance-Based Risk Sharing in Health Care: Current Status
17 April 2013
…in Health this summer. They will be presenting a half-day short course on risk-sharing/performance-based arrangements for drugs and other medical products at the ISPOR annual meeting in May 2013. Performance based risk sharing arrangements…
ISPOR Task Force Report on Performance-Based Risk-Sharing Arrangements
28 August 2013
…“performance-based risk-sharing arrangements” (PBRSAs), these payment schemes “involve a plan by which the performance of the product is tracked in a defined patient population over a specified period of time…
The Use of Pay-for-Performance for Drugs: Can It Improve Incentives for Innovation?
1 February 2012
…alternatives. Rewarding those products that do deliver performance (in the form of health gain and other benefits) is very important in stimulating innovation. The authors conclude that “pay-for-performance” offers an…
Reforming Primary Health Care in Middle-Income Countries: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
18 July 2022
…intermediaries became entitled to pay monthly incentives to healthcare providers in “contracted” PHC facilities based on pre-specified performance criteria. The financial incentives were discontinued in 2008 and the pay-for-performance scheme…
Health Systems Performance Assessment
1 April 2006
Annual lecture by Christopher Murray, who speaks in the UK about the work on health systems performance assessment (HSPA) at the World Health Organization. He gives some reflections on this…
Analysing Hospital Variation at the Level of EQ-5D Dimensions
20 February 2012
…how quality assessment using summary scores can provide an incomplete, potentially misleading assessment of hospital performance. This study is the first to analyse hospital performance in terms of the EQ-5D…