Pay-For-Performance: Balancing Cost and Care
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Pay for Performance in Health Care: Methods and Approaches
document when you quote from it. You must not sell the document or make a profit from reproducing it. Chapter 4 Concerns about quality of care have accelerated since the 1990s, as studies by Wennberg, Fisher, and others have documented large and unexplained variations in rates of health care utilization and clinical outcomes across geographic areas, calling into question the traditional approac...
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عنوان ژورنال: Value in Health
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1098-3015
DOI: 10.1016/j.jval.2014.08.1082