Assessing Medicare’s Hospital Pay-For-Performance Programs And Whether They Are Achieving Their Goals

Goals and Effects of “Iranian Pay for Performance” Program for Non-Medical Workforce in Teaching Hospitals: Qualitative Study

Goals and Effects of “Iranian Pay for Performance” Program for Non-Medical Workforce in Teaching Hospitals: Qualitative Study Serajaddin Gray1, Mohammad Aghajani2, Razieh Ronasian3, Saeed Manavi4, Iraj Harirchi5, Alireza Olyaee Manesh1, 6, *, Mani Yousefvand1, Seyedeh Hosnieh Shafaee Tonekaboni3, Pejman Hamouzadeh1, Farhad Habibi Nodeh7 1Department of Health Management and Economics, School o...

Hospital Size, Uncertainty, and Pay-for-Performance

We construct statistical models to assess whether hospital size will impact the ability to identify "true" hospital ranks in pay-for-performance (P4P) programs. We use Bayesian hierarchical models to estimate the uncertainty associated with the ranking of hospitals by their raw composite score values for three medical conditions: acute myocardial infarction (AMI), heart failure (HF), and commun...

Pay-for-performance and the Millennium Development Goals.

Hospital cardiovascular outcome measures in federal pay-for-reporting and pay-for-performance programs: a brief overview of current efforts.

Impact of System and Physician Factors on the Detection of Obstructive Coronary Disease With Diagnostic Angiography in Stable Ischemic Heart Disease Harindra C. Wijeysundera, MD, PhD; Feng Qiu, MSc; Maria C. Bennell, MSc, MPH; Madhu K. Natarajan, MD MSc; Warren J. Cantor, MD; Stuart Smith, MD; Kori J. Kingsbury, MSN, MPA; Dennis T. Ko, MD, MSc · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · ·...

Are countries achieving the Millennium Development Goals?

This paper uses two classes of multidimensional indices to measure countries’ evolution towards the achievement of United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Our results suggest that improvements in the different MDGs tend to be uncorrelated among them and, on average, countries are largely offtrack in their way towards MDGs achievement. This evolution has been highly uneven across co...