the 10% improvement in the general practice quality of stroke care between 2004/5 and 2007/8 reduced 2007/8 hospital …

, revision and redo rates and three patient reported indicators to examine to examine the relationship between the quality of …We examine whether a hospitals quality is affected by the quality provided by other hospitals in the same market. We … determine whether a hospital will have higher quality when its rivals have higher quality. We then apply spatial econometric …

We examine how public sector third-party purchasers and hospitals negotiate quality targets when a fixed proportion of … hospital revenue is required to be linked to quality. We develop a bargaining model linking the number of quality targets to …/11, we find that the number of quality targets is determined by the purchaser's population health and its budget, the …

quality, as measured by in-hospital mortality and 28-day emergency readmission. To do this, we exploit the phased introduction …

covering 38 of the 81 clinical indicators in the quality framework. The maximum payment for each service was calculated and …The new contract for primary care in the UK offers fee-for-service payments for a wide range of activities in a quality … clinical interventions in the quality outcomes framework. There appears to be no relationship between pay and health gain …