A great new paper from PhD student Tracy Jackson, along with several colleagues from the Asthma UK Centre for Applied Resaerch, investigates the evidence on the impact of financial incentives to encourage self-management.
As the paper says:
Financial incentives are utilised in ...a number of countries... rewarding practices or practitioners for achieving set targets.
Results for the impact of financial incentives for the implementation of self-management were mixed. The evidence in diabetes suggests no consistent impact on diabetic control. There was evidence from a single study of improved process and health outcomes in asthma. Further research is needed to confirm these findings and understand the process by which financial incentives may impact (or not) on care.
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Cite this paper as
Jackson T, Shields MD, Heaney LG, Kendall M, Pearce CJ, Hui CY, et al. (2017) The impact of financial incentives on the implementation of asthma or diabetes self-management: A systematic review. PLoS ONE12(11): e0187478. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0187478