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- Pros And Cons Of Check-listsShow More
On the subject of protocol-driven care ("box-ticking"), questionnaires, tick-boxes, or pop-ups should be used as aide-memoire rather than rigid instruments for assessing quality of care given by doctors to patients or its use being mandatory during clinical assessments.
Clinicians who are pressed for time or single-mindedly only interested in checking all the boxes may superficially or vaguely approach the ite...
Competing Interests: None declared. - Commentary on "Pay-for-Performance in the United KingdomShow More
This systematic review by Gillam, Siriwardena, and Steel adds significantly to our collective understanding of the effects of pay-for- performance (P4P) in primary care. To my knowledge,the Quality Outcomes framework (QOF)in the UK represents the largest and most robust nationwide application of P4P in the world, and thus provides uniquely valuable insights regarding the potential positive and negative effects to be expec...
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