Strategies To Support Quality-based Purchasing: A Review of the Evidence

This report develops a conceptual model of how incentives influence provider behavior, summarizes what is known from randomized controlled trials about the effectiveness of different quality-based purchasing strategies, and describes ongoing research.

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Current as of July 2004
Internet Citation: Strategies To Support Quality-based Purchasing: A Review of the Evidence. July 2004. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/redirects/qpurchsum.html