Article Text
The problem with…
The problem with pay-for-performance schemes
Abstract
‘The Problem with…’ series covers controversial topics related to efforts to improve healthcare quality, including widely recommended but deceptively difficult strategies for improvement and pervasive problems that seem to resist solution.
- pay for performance
- social sciences
- healthcare quality improvement
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Footnotes
SG and DS contributed equally.
Contributors DS and SG contributed equally to this paper. They are co-first authors who conceptualised the idea and drafted the initial manuscript. AJ helped conceptualise the idea as well as reviewed and revised the manuscript.
Competing interests None declared.
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