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Published in: Journal of General Internal Medicine 1/2009

Open Access 01-01-2009 | Editorial

Incorporating Disparity Reduction into Pay-for-Performance

Authors: Alyna T. Chien, MD, MS, Marshall H. Chin, MD, MPH

Published in: Journal of General Internal Medicine | Issue 1/2009

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One of the concerns surrounding pay-for-performance (P4P) strategies is their potentially negative impact on racial/ethnic disparities in healthcare. We have previously described that leaders of P4P programs in the United States acknowledge that their P4P programs are being designed without much attention to these disparities and may contain features that may promote inequities rather than eliminate them.1 …
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Metadata
Title
Incorporating Disparity Reduction into Pay-for-Performance
Authors
Alyna T. Chien, MD, MS
Marshall H. Chin, MD, MPH
Publication date
01-01-2009
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Published in
Journal of General Internal Medicine / Issue 1/2009
Print ISSN: 0884-8734
Electronic ISSN: 1525-1497
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-008-0884-6

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