{"title":"Out in front. Managed care helps push clinical guidelines forward.","authors":"K Sandrick","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Until recently, most managed care provider incentives were productivity-oriented, but an increasing number of plans are shifting the focus to quality. For hospitals, the question is whose clinical practice guidelines to follow.</p>","PeriodicalId":73253,"journal":{"name":"Hospitals","volume":"67 9","pages":"30-1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1993-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Hospitals","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Until recently, most managed care provider incentives were productivity-oriented, but an increasing number of plans are shifting the focus to quality. For hospitals, the question is whose clinical practice guidelines to follow.