Building a bridge from fragmentation to accountability - The Prometheus payment model

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 361, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1033-1036

  De Brantes, François ^a   Rosenthal, Meredith B ^b   Painter, Michael ^c  

^a Bridges to Excellence   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPITATION FEE; FEE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SERVICE; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 70149116137     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp0906121     Document Type: Article

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