Paying for the wrong kind of performance? Financial incentives and behaviour changes in National Health Service dentistry 1992-2009

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 465-473

  Tickle, Martin ^a   McDonald, Ruth ^b   Franklin, Jarrod ^c   Aggarwal, Vishal R ^a   Milsom, Keith ^d   Reeves, David ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

financing; incentive; professional practices; reimbursement

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DENTISTRY; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH; REIMBURSEMENT; STATISTICS; UNITED KINGDOM;

DENTIST'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; ENGLAND; HEALTH CARE REFORM; HUMANS; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; PHYSICIAN INCENTIVE PLANS; REIMBURSEMENT, INCENTIVE; STATE DENTISTRY;

EID: 80052877726     PISSN: 03015661     EISSN: 16000528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0528.2011.00622.x     Document Type: Article

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