Opinion: The unintended consequences of antiflaring policies—and measures for mitigation

Responsibility for Unintended Consequences

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Evidence-based performance measures: preventing unintended consequences of quality measurement.

Consequences of Quality Measurement Quality measurement and pay-for-performance programs can provide strong incentives to improve quality (1–3). However, performance measures can also have unintended consequences. For example, consider performance measures related to antibiotic timing for patients presenting to hospitals with community-acquired pneumonia (4). The Medicare National Pneumonia Pro...

Unintended Consequences.

The law of unintended consequences?

The Consequences of Unintended Childbearing