title: Results from the first 4 years of pay for performance.
abstract: Some of the lessons hospitals that have participated in the Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration project have learned include: the need to tie in quality-of-care initiatives to the organization's strategic plan and to incentive plans for all employees, from executives on down; the value in allowing hospital physicians to "own" quality improvement initiatives; the importance of making results of the initiative available to all staff; the benefit of creating best-practice teams to address improvements in specific clinical areas.
authors.affiliation: Premier healthcare alliance, Charlotte, NC, USA. susan_devore@premierinc.com
authors.forename: Susan D
authors.initials: SD
authors.lastname: DeVore
mesh_terms: D004469:Economics, Hospital; D018166:Health Care Reform; D006801:Humans; D017146:Models, Organizational; D015397:Program Evaluation; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000191:economics*; D012052:Reimbursement, Incentive; D012945:Social Values; D014481:United States