American Heart Journal
Volume 152, Issue 3 , Pages 410-413 , September 2006

Reporting for provider performance: Should we punish the bad, or try to make them all good?

  • T. Bruce Ferguson Jr, MD

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: T. Bruce Ferguson Jr, MD, East Carolina Heart Institute, Division of CT & Vascular Surgery, 600 Moye Blvd., Greenville, NC 27858-4354.

Received 12 December 2005 ,Accepted 22 January 2006.

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    Schematic for reporting for provider performance and evaluation. Underlined tools for reporting are proposed as becoming increasingly important. Solid lines are principal associations for agenda 1; da

    Schematic for reporting for provider performance and evaluation. Underlined tools for reporting are proposed as becoming increasingly important. Solid lines are principal associations for agenda 1; dashed lines are principal associations for agenda 2.

PII: S0002-8703(06)00120-7

doi: 10.1016/j.ahj.2006.01.017

American Heart Journal
Volume 152, Issue 3 , Pages 410-413 , September 2006