Paying Physicians for Quality: Evidence and Themes from the Field
The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient SafetyPublished 1 August 2006
Douglas A. Conrad, Barry G. Saver, Beverly Court, Sarah Heath
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Views on the role of financial incentives varied widely and were related to a number of other factors, including institutional culture, community context, organizational strategy and structure, organizational stability, quality measurement, nature and size of incentives, and the sustainability of interventions.
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These findings have implications for the acceptability and structure of financial incentives for quality directed to health care provider organizations. A set of considerations for the design and implementation of quality incentives relate to the incentives' scope, controllability, transparency, size, and orientation (individual or team), as well as the relationship between the extrinsic financial incentives and professionals' intrinsic motivation.
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