Objectives Pay-for-performance is increasingly used as a system intervention to support quality improvement. Programs are however developed, implemented and evaluated in a heterogeneous way. This is partly due to the broad and disparate theoretical and empirical foundation of P4P practice, which...

All Iranian hospitals have been subject to a grading system which determines the payments they can charge. We examined all possible pathways through which the grading system could influence hospitals’ adherence to audited standards.

Treatment costs of end-stage renal disease with dialysis are high and vary between dialysis modalities. Public healthcare payers aim at stimulating the use of less expensive dialysis modalities, with maintenance of healthcare quality.

After a comprehensive review of the therapeutic advantage of all drugs reimbursed by the French Public Health Insurance, a large number of drugs were removed from the list of reimbursable drugs, among them mucolytics and expectorants (ATC Class R05C) in March 2006. The aim of this study is to...

Quantitative analysis of real-world coverage decision-making offers insights into the revealed preferences of appraisal committees. Aim of this review was to structure empirical evidence of coverage decisions made in practice based on the components ‘methods and evidence’, ‘criteria and...

To assess the concept of public involvement in the decision-making process in the healthcare sector in Poland.