A reporting framework for describing and a typology for categorizing and analyzing the designs of health care pay for performance schemes.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Pay for Performance (P4P) has increasingly being adopted in different countries as a provider payment mechanism to improve health system performance. Evaluations of pay for performance (P4P) schemes across several countries show significant variation in effectiveness, which may be explained by differences in design. There is however no reliable framework to structure the reporting of the design or a typology to help analyse and interpret results of P4P schemes. This paper reports the development of a reporting framework and a typology of P4P schemes.

Methods

P4P design features were identified from literature and then explored using relevant theories from behavioural and economic science. These design features were then combined with the help of multidimensional t

SUBMITTER: Ogundeji YK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6123918 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature