GPs are being paid more for doing less, MPs are told
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Why Are Migrants Paid More ?
1 We thank Jan Van Ours and Michele Pellizzari and participants at seminars in Tilburg and Bocconi for useful comments and Giambattista Rossi, Ph.D student at Birkbeck College, University of London, who supplied us with the data.
متن کاملDoing More for Less: Study Says State Medicaid Family Planning Expansions Are Cost-Effective
excruciatingly difficult ones for state governments—in terms of their budgets in general and for their Medicaid programs in particular. According to a new survey by the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, every state in the country save one either has implemented Medicaid cost-containment strategies in the current fiscal year or plans to do so. According to Health Management Associ...
متن کاملLearning More by Doing Less
A principal must decide whether to implement each of two independent proposals (e.g., earmark requests, policy reforms, grant funding) of unknown quality. Each proposal is represented by an agent who advocates by producing evidence about quality. Although the principal prefers the most-informative evidence, agents strategically choose less-informative evidence to maximize the probability the pr...
متن کاملBeing paid relatively well most of the time: Negatively skewed payments are more satisfying
How does the structure of a series of payments influence its recipient's satisfaction? A common hypothesis is that each payment will be compared with a single "standard" or "reference" payment (e.g., the average payment). Cognitive models of judgment such as range frequency theory predict in contrast that the entire payment distribution will influence evaluation of each individual payment. Two ...
متن کاملImproving patient safety by doing less rather than more: many peripheral intravenous catheters are unnecessary
We would like to congratulate Kampf and colleagues on their study, which demonstrates the effectiveness of a multimodal intervention to improve safety for the insertion of peripheral intravenous catheters (PIVC) [1]. The issue of nosocomial infection is a small but real risk associated with the insertion of PIVC [2]. While we support and agree with the approach of the authors, we feel they may ...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.332.7556.1470