P4P has raised the quality of primary care in the UK, but broader performance indicators are needed to accurately reflect the scope of general practice ay for performance, or " P4P " as it is often known, is now centre-stage in primary care in the United Kingdom. P4P promotes change in clinical behaviour by offering financial rewards in return for achieving certain predefined targets. Both side...

ABSTRACT In recent years, RTB(Real Time Bidding) becomes a popular online advertisement trading method. During the auction, each DSP(Demand Side Platform) is supposed to evaluate current opportunity and respond with an ad and corresponding bid price. It’s essential for DSP to find an optimal ad selection and bid price determination strategy which maximizes revenue or performance under budget an...

BACKGROUND Market Access Agreements (MAA) between pharmaceutical industry and health care payers have been proliferating in Europe in the last years. MAA can be simple discounts from the list price or very sophisticated schemes with inarguably high administrative burden. DISCUSSION We distinguished and defined from the health care payer perspective three kinds of MAA: Commercial Agreements (C...

Many countries have introduced pay-for-performance (P4P) Introduction. models to encourage health providers and institutions to provide good quality of care. In 2013, the National Health Security Office of Thailand introduced P4P, based on the UK Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF), as a mandatory programme for primary care providers. This study aims to review the first year of the Thai QOF po...

BACKGROUND Evidence about the best methods with which to accelerate progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals is urgently needed. We assessed the effect of performance-based payment of health-care providers (payment for performance; P4P) on use and quality of child and maternal care services in health-care facilities in Rwanda. METHODS 166 facilities were randomly assigned a...

BACKGROUND Although dental care settings provide an exceptional opportunity to reach smokers and provide brief cessation advice and treatment to reduce oral and other tobacco-related health conditions, dental care providers demonstrate limited adherence to evidence-based guidelines for treatment of tobacco use and dependence. METHODS/DESIGN Guided by a multi-level, conceptual framework that e...