Leaders’ experiences and perceptions implementing activity-based funding and pay-for-performance hospital funding models: A systematic review

INTRODUCTION: Providing cost-effective, accessible, high quality patient care is a challenge to governments and health care delivery systems across the globe. In response to this challenge, two types of hospital funding models have been widely implemented: (1) activity-based funding (ABF) and (2) pay-for-performance (P4P). Although health care leaders play a critical role in the implementation of these funding models, to date their perspectives …