As early as the 1920s, and subsequently in the 1959 Build and Blood Pressure Study (S1. 5-
1) of almost 5 million adults insured between 1934 and 1954, a strong direct relationship …

Background: The benefits of pay-for-performance (P4P) programs are uncertain. Purpose:
To update and expand a prior review examining the effects of P4P programs targeted at the …

Document Reviewers: Luis Alcocer (Mexico), Christina Antza (Greece), Mustafa Arici
(Turkey), Eduardo Barbosa (Brazil), Adel Berbari (Lebanon), Luıs Bronze (Portugal), John …

Background The prevalence of uncontrolled hypertension is high and increasing in low-
income and middle-income countries. We tested the effectiveness of a multifaceted …

Objectives To present the implications of agency theory in microeconomics, augmented by
behavioral economics, for different methods of value‐based payment in health care; and to …

“Building on extensive real-life experience with EBP, this expert team from University of Iowa
Hospitals & Clinics provides vital guidance to clinicians at the cutting edge of care …

Background The benefits of pay-for-performance schemes in improving the quality of care
remain uncertain. There is little information on the effect of removing incentives from existing …

Importance Financial incentives to physicians or patients are increasingly used, but their
effectiveness is not well established. Objective To determine whether physician financial …

Document Reviewers: Luis Alcocer (Mexico), Christina Antza (Greece), Mustafa Arici
(Turkey), Eduardo Barbosa (Brazil), Adel Berbari (Lebanon), Luıs Bronze (Portugal), John …

The use of financial incentives to improve quality in health care has become widespread.
Yet evidence on the effectiveness of incentives suggests that they have generally had …