The use of financial incentives to help improve health outcomes: is the quality and outcomes framework fit for purpose? A systematic review | Zendy

Carwyn Langdown | Zendy; Stephen Peckham | Zendy

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The use of financial incentives to help improve health outcomes: is the quality and outcomes framework fit for purpose? A systematic review

Author(s) -

Carwyn Langdown,

Stephen Peckham

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.916

H-Index - 82

eISSN - 1741-3850

pISSN - 1741-3842

DOI - 10.1093/pubmed/fdt077

Subject(s) - incentive , quality (philosophy) , business , public health , actuarial science , environmental health , medicine , nursing , economics , philosophy , epistemology , microeconomics

The quality and outcomes framework (QOF) is one of the world's largest pay-for-performance schemes, rewarding general practitioners for the quality of care they provide. This review examines the evidence on the efficacy of the scheme for improving health outcomes, its impact on non-incentivized activities and the robustness of the clinical targets adopted in the scheme.

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