Reviewing the potential roles of financial incentives for funding healthcare in Canada

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ISBN: 9781927024652 (print)
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 electronic text (50 p.) : digital file.
Publisher: Ottawa, Ont. : Canadian Health Services Research Foundation, 2012

General Note:	"December 2012". Issued as part of the desLibris documents collection.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 36-49).
Formatted Contents Note:	Key messages -- Executive summary: Population-based funding; Global budgets; Activity-based funding; Pay-for-performance; Bundles of care; Overview of Canadian initiatives; Summary -- Introduction -- Population-based funding: Strengths; Weaknesses -- Global budgets: Strengths; Weaknesses -- Activity-based funding: Activity-based funding in Canada -- Strengths: Transparency; Volume; Efficiency; Access; Monitoring of hospital quality -- Weaknesses: Higher overall spending; Data and reporting requirements; Defining funding amounts; Up-coding -- Activity-based funding in post-acute and community-based care: ABF in continuing care; ABF in inpatient rehabilitation; ABF in long-term care; ABF in home care; ABF in ambulatory care; ABF in mental health; Funding specialized care -- Physician remuneration and institutional funding -- Pay-for-performance: Strengths; Weaknesses -- Bundles of care: Strengths; Weaknesses -- Overview of Canadian initiatives: B.C. patient-focused funding; Activity-based funding for Long-term care in Alberta and Ontario; -- Outpatient renal dialysis -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Appendix I. Acronyms.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: World Wide Web.