Paying for Performance in Healthcare Organisations

Document Type : Perspective

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Warwick Business School, The University of Warwick, Coventry, UK

Abstract

Aligning Financial Incentives (FIs) to health policy goals is becoming increasingly popular. In many cases, such initiatives have failed to deliver anticipated benefits. Attributing this to the actions of self-interested and resistant professionals is not an entirely helpful approach. It is important to avoid simplistic assumptions to build knowledge of how and why schemes are implemented in practice to inform future policy in this area.

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  • Receive Date: 27 December 2013
  • Revise Date: 17 January 2014
  • Accept Date: 14 January 2014
  • First Publish Date: 01 February 2014

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