BLOGCAN - " When a Measurement Becomes a Target, It is no Longer...

Courtesy Health Care Renewal  Tue, 04/15/2008 - 08:34

On the Retired Doc's Thoughts blog, Dr James Gaulte offers some insight into the problems with scorecards for physicians or hospitals, and resulting pay-for-performance (P4P) schemes.

The main idea comes from an economist: " Once a measure is made a target for the purpose of conducting policy, it will loose the information content that would qualify it to play such a role." The idea is once a measure becomes a quality or P4P target,...

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