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. 2008 Feb 9;336(7639):306-8.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.39463.454815.94.

Payment for performance in health care

Russell Mannion  1 , Huw T O Davies
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Payment for performance in health care

Russell Mannion et al. BMJ. .

Abstract

Debates about performance related pay seem to have moved on from whether it is desirable to how to make it work. But Russell Mannion and Huw Davies cautionthat we still don’t know enough about the potential problems

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: None declared.

Provenance and peer review: Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.

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