Assessing immunization performance of private practitioners in Maine: Impact of the Assessment, Feedback, Incentives, and Exchange strategy

Pediatrics

Volumn 103, Issue 6 I, 1999, Pages 1218-1223

  Massoudi, Mehran S ^a,d   Walsh, Jude ^b   Stokley, Shannon ^a   Rosenthal, Jorge ^a   Stevenson, John ^a   Miljanovic, Biljana ^b   Mann, Jack ^c   Dini, Eugene ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DIS CONTR AND PREV   (United States)

^b Maine Department of Health and Human Services   (United States)

^c AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS   (United States)

^d CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessments; CASA; Health services; Immunizations; Managed care; Performance measurement; Private providers

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MANAGED CARE; MANAGED CARE ORGANIZATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRIVATE PRACTICE; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEEDBACK; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNIZATION SCHEDULE; INFANT; MAINE; MOTIVATION; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PRIVATE PRACTICE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RURAL POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0033036434     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.103.6.1218     Document Type: Article

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