Effect of Financial Incentives to Physicians, Patients, or Both on Lipid Levels: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Financial incentives to physicians or patients are increasingly used, but their effectiveness is not well established.

Objective

To determine whether physician financial incentives, patient incentives, or shared physician and patient incentives are more effective than control in reducing levels of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) among patients with high cardiovascular risk.

Design, setting, and participants

Four-group, multicenter, cluster randomized clinical trial with a 12-month intervention conducted from 2011 to 2014 in 3 primary care practices in the northeastern United States. Three hundred forty eligible primary care physicians (PCPs) were enrolled from a pool of 421. Of 25,627 potentially eligible patients of those PCPs, 1503 enrolled. P

SUBMITTER: Asch DA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5509443 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature