The Association of Patient Satisfaction-Based Incentives with Primary Care Physician Opioid Prescribing
Conclusions:
Efforts to improve patient satisfaction may have potentially untoward effects on providers' opioid prescribing behaviors. Our results suggest a need to further study the impact of provider incentive plans that are based on patient satisfaction scores.
Source: Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine - Category: Primary Care Authors: Carrico, J. A., Mahoney, K., Raymond, K. M., Mims, L., Smith, P. C., Sakai, J. T., Mikulich-Gilbertson, S. K., Hopfer, C. J., Bartels, K. Tags: Research Letter Source Type: research
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