Results from the first 4 years of pay for performance
DeVore, S.D.
Healthcare financial management journal of the Healthcare Financial Management Association 64(1): 88-92
2010
ISSN/ISBN: 0735-0732 PMID: 20088476 Document Number: 647951
Some of the lessons hospitals that have participated in the Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration project have learned include: the need to tie in quality-of-care initiatives to the organization's strategic plan and to incentive plans for all employees, from executives on down; the value in allowing hospital physicians to "own" quality improvement initiatives; the importance of making results of the initiative available to all staff; the benefit of creating best-practice teams to address improvements in specific clinical areas.