Performance-based hospital funding: A reform tool or an incentive for fraud?

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 192, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 222-224

  Nocera, Antony ^a  

^a Dubbo Base Hospital   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; EMERGENCY WARD; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; FORGERY; FUNDING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL; LAW; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SAFETY; PERFORMANCE; SHORT SURVEY; ARTICLE; ECONOMICS; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HUMAN; REIMBURSEMENT;

ECONOMICS, HOSPITAL; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT, HOSPITAL; FRAUD; HEALTH CARE REFORM; HUMANS; NEW SOUTH WALES; REIMBURSEMENT, INCENTIVE; VICTORIA;

EID: 77950347739     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: 13265377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2010.tb03483.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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