Healthcare Quarterly
Healthcare Quarterly
12(3) May 2009
: 18-21.doi:10.12927/hcq.2013.20872
Feature
Service-Based Funding and Pay for Performance: Will Incentive Payments Give Canadian Healthcare the Quality Boost It Needs?
The link between paying incentives and improving quality in healthcare remains largely theoretical in Canada - and, indeed, around the world. Evidence that tying pay or funding to good results will improve care is inconsistent and often weak. Yet "pay for performance" and "service-based funding" are fast-growing international trends, rapidly becoming dominant models in American and British healthcare. Now they're making inroads in Canada and are unquestionably headed for a bigger role in years to come.
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