Cochrane Review: Pay for Performance for Hospitals

Pay for performance for hospitals – Cochrane Library (free)

Summary: Pay for performance (payment or penalty methods to encourage hospitals to increase quality of care) – Cochrane Library (free)

Related Systematic Review: The Effects of Pay-for-Performance Programs on Health, Health Care Use, and Processes of Care: A Systematic Review – Annals of Internal Medicine (free)

See also: Impact of Financial Incentives on Early and Late Adopters among US Hospitals – The BMJ (free study and commentaries) AND Research: Pay-for-performance fails to perform (link to abstract and commentaries) AND Value-Based Purchasing: Time for Reboot or Time to Move On? – The JAMA Forum (free)

“We found either no difference at all or only a very slight effect for most P4P programs.”