Abstracts by key term: Pay for performance
Influence of insurance status and income on waiting times in the outpatient sector. The length of the waiting time for an appointment in the outpatient and inpatient sectors is considered an important quality indicator and a significant parameter for access to medical care in most countries. Since waiting times are often perceived as an implicit form of rationing of healthcare services, this […]
25.09.2012
Pay for Performance – An Option for Germany? Germany is considered a developing country when it comes to "pay for performance" (P4P). P4P has also established itself in Germany as a term for strategic compensation systems in which a portion of compensation is tied to measured performance levels. Two recently published reports (Veit et al. 2012 and Charlesworth et al. 2012) […]