Financial incentives and quality improvement.
Year: 2005
Type: article
Abstract: We share Marshall and Harrison’s caution on over-reliance on financial incentives for improving quality of care manifested in the new UK general practice contract.1 Financial incentives do not always result in behaviour change as intended for reasons that are not well understood. We argue that “the fascination with financial incentives” is not “based on sound empirical evidence”.
In recent years at least three systematic reviews on the impact of financial incentives on provider behaviour have been published.2– …
Source: PubMed Central
Authors: A Rashidian, N Black, I Russell
Institution: London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Language: English
Subfield: Family Practice
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2100576247