Rewarding results: using financial incentives to improve quality

Rewarding results: using financial incentives to improve quality.

P olicy makers like to experiment with different ways of improving quality. Educational approaches have been dominant in the past. These are usually professionally led and developmental in nature. While they will always play an important role, the evidence that traditional educational methods do not seemtodeliveranacceptablelevelorpaceof change has come as a surprise to many people. Market base...

The cost-effectiveness of using financial incentives to improve provider quality: a framework and application.

Despite growing adoption of pay-for-performance (P4P) programmes in health care, there is remarkably little evidence on the cost-effectiveness of such schemes. We review the limited number of previous studies and critique the frameworks adopted and the narrow range of costs and outcomes considered, before proposing a new more comprehensive framework, which we apply to the first P4P scheme intro...

Using incentives to improve the quality of care in Medicare

Financial incentives and quality improvement.

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A test of financial incentives to improve warfarin adherence

BACKGROUND Sub-optimal adherence to warfarin places millions of patients at risk for stroke and bleeding complications each year. Novel methods are needed to improve adherence for warfarin. We conducted two pilot studies to determine whether a lottery-based daily financial incentive is feasible and improves warfarin adherence and anticoagulation control. METHODS Volunteers from the University...