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Effects of quality-based procedure hospital funding reform in Ontario, Canada: An interrupted time series study

Abstract

BACKGROUND: The Government of Ontario, Canada, announced hospital funding reforms in 2011, including Quality-based Procedures (QBPs) involving pre-set funds for managing patients with specific diagnoses/procedures. A key goal was to improve quality of care across the jurisdiction. METHODS: Interrupted time series evaluated the policy change, focusing on four QBPs (congestive heart failure, hip fracture surgery, pneumonia, prostate cancer …

Authors

Li AH-T; Palmer KS; Taljaard M; Paterson JM; Brown A; Huang A; Marani H; Lapointe-Shaw L; Pincus D; Wettstein MS

Journal

PLOS ONE, Vol. 15, No. 8,

Publisher

Public Library of Science (PLoS)

DOI

10.1371/journal.pone.0236480

ISSN

1932-6203