title: What pay for performance can mean for quality managers.
abstract: Top management wants to see the numbers before the public does. Learn to determine whose data are the most valid and accurate. Consumers evaluate hospitals far differently than the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care or The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid.
mesh_terms: D016542:Chief Executive Officers, Hospital; D004649:Employee Incentive Plans; D033181:Information Dissemination; D007255:Information Services; D017749:Total Quality Management; D014481:United States