BACKGROUND: In July 1994 an alternative funding plan for clinical services (global funding
instead of fee-for-service payment) was established at the Southeastern Ontario Health …

OBJECTIVE To determine the effect of the Queen's University alternative funding plan (AFP)
on the Department of Family Medicine in terms of patient, staff, and faculty satisfaction; …

In managed care, financial incentives and utilization review create conflicts of interest for
physicians. We sought to determine whether these incentives would lead physicians to deny …

Aims to evaluate the acceptability of commissioning to improve clinical effectiveness in
secondary care and explore the conditions under which fundholders would be willing to use …

" We examined the oversight of the quality and cost-effectiveness of services provided under
the fee-for-service and Alternative Payment Program models, the two largest physician …

Abstract In 1994 the School of Medicine of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, its
clinical teachers, and the three principal teaching hospitals initiated a new approach to …

Objectives: To help develop a means, based on the views of purchasers and providers of
health care, of incorporating national research on clinical effectiveness into local …

Objective. To identify all financial incentives that had been proposed, described, or used
regardless of their initial objective and, when possible, to assess the results of these …

A sample study of 216 physicians in the St. Louis Metropolitan area reveals a statistically
significant difference in dealing with important issues in patient management between …

Background: Sponsoring of medical meetings by life science companies has led to reduced
participation fees for physicians but questions potential drawbacks. Ongoing discussions are …