Selecting effective incentive structures in health care: A decision framework to support health care purchasers in finding the right incentives to drive performance

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Custers, Thomas ^a,b   Hurley, Jeremiah ^c   Klazinga, Niek S ^a   Brown, Adalsteinn D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ONTARIO MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND LONG TERM CARE   (Canada)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; DECISION MAKING; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; REWARD; VALIDATION PROCESS; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; POLICY; PUBLIC HEALTH; REIMBURSEMENT; SALARY AND FRINGE BENEFIT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING, ORGANIZATIONAL; HUMANS; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; ONTARIO; ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY; PHYSICIAN INCENTIVE PLANS; REIMBURSEMENT, INCENTIVE; SALARIES AND FRINGE BENEFITS;

EID: 42649095962     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-8-66     Document Type: Article

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