Patient Opinions Regarding ‘Pay for Performance for Patients’

Rewarding healthy behaviors--pay patients for performance.

Despite a considerable investment of resources into pay for performance, preliminary studies have found that it may not be significantly more effective in improving health outcome measures when compared with voluntary quality improvement programs. Because patient behaviors ultimately affect health outcomes, I would propose a novel pay-for-performance program that rewards patients directly for a...

Pay for performance.

Pay-for-Performance Initiatives

BACKGROUND: Improving the quality of care provided to beneficiaries while reining in costs, is a key goal for Medicare programs. The emerging payfor-performance (P4P) movement is a reimbursement strategy that provides incentives to improve the overall quality care provided to patients, which can lead to improved clinical outcomes and reduced health care utilization and costs. OBJECTIVE: To revi...

jurisprudential and legal analysis judicial opinions regarding patient rights

a case which is observed in the judicial decisions on the patients’ rights is a physician who causes the patient’s death upon his treatment. in a case, the physician doing positional anesthesia observes that the patient is shocked and dies and considering what has been mentioned in the decisions issued by the supreme court, the accused is sentenced to the payment of one complete blood money to ...

Patients' views of pay for performance in primary care.

BACKGROUND Many countries use pay-for-performance schemes to reward family practices financially for achieving quality indicators. The views of patients on pay for performance remain largely unexplored. AIM To gain the views of family practice patients on the United Kingdom pay-for-performance Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF). DESIGN AND SETTING Interviews with 52 patients were conducte...