Physician Incentive Plans
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Monday, November 23, 2009

The effects of an incentive program on quality of care in diabetes management.

30 Aug 2009 An incentive program for general practitioners to encourage systematic and igh-quality care in chronic disease management was introduced in Australia in 1999. There is little empirical evidence and ambiguous theoretical guidance on which effects to ... Read more...

Improving chronic illness care: a longitudinal cohort analysis of large physician organizations.

30 Aug 2009 BACKGROUND: An increasing number of people suffer from chronic illness. Processes exist to provide better chronic illness care and yet for the most part, they are not used. OBJECTIVE: To examine the change in use of commonly recommended chronic ... Read more...

Effects of pay for performance on the quality of primary care in England.

21 Jul 2009 BACKGROUND: A pay-for-performance scheme based on meeting targets for the quality of clinical care was introduced to family practice in England in 2004. METHODS: We conducted an interrupted time-series analysis of the quality of care in 42 ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Physician Incentive Plans'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Pay for performance and quality of care in England. 20 Oct 2009
• The effects of an incentive program on quality of care in diabetes management. 30 Aug 2009
• Improving chronic illness care: a longitudinal cohort analysis of large physician organizations. 30 Aug 2009
• NICE set to revise Quality and Outcomes Framework indicators. 20 Aug 2009
• Effects of pay for performance on the quality of primary care in England. 21 Jul 2009
• Aligning physician and hospital incentives: the approach at hospital for special surgery. 12 Jul 2009
• Aligning incentives in orthopaedics: opportunities and challenges -- the Case Medical Center experience. 6 Jul 2009
• FootForum: Pay for Performance (P4P) Initiatives. 29 Jun 2009
• Preparing for quality-based payments: trends and legal barriers to successful implementation. 29 Jun 2009
• The UK Quality and Outcomes Framework pay-for-performance scheme and spirometry: rewarding quality or just quantity? A cross-sectional study in Rotherham, UK. 26 Jun 2009
• Provider monitoring and pay-for-performance when multiple providers affect outcomes: An application to renal dialysis. 20 Jun 2009
• Economic incentives to promote innovation in healthcare delivery. 17 Jun 2009
• Making PQRI work in a nephrology practice. 30 May 2009
• Will hypertension performance measures used for pay-for-performance programs penalize those who care for medically complex patients? 30 May 2009
• Pay for performance: a work in progress. 30 May 2009
• Regionalization and mortality in neonatal intensive care. 30 May 2009
• Financial incentives for return of service in underserved areas: a systematic review. 27 May 2009
• E-prescribing and the Physician Quality Reporting Initiative: get in while the getting is good! 29 Apr 2009
• Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI)-2009 update. 29 Apr 2009
• Gauging surgeons' understanding and perceptions of an academic incentive plan. 29 Apr 2009

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Technical information about 'Physician Incentive Plans'

Definition: Compensatory plans designed to motivate physicians in relation to patient referral, physician recruitment, and efficient use of the health facility.

Descriptor UI: D010816

Alternative terms: Physician Incentive Plans; Incentive Plans, Physician; Incentive Plan, Physician; Physician Incentive Plan; Plan, Physician Incentive; Plans, Physician Incentive;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; organization & administration; standards; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: N04.452.677.740;

History Note: 91(88); was see under PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT 1988-90