The synergy between quality based purchasing and quality improvement in general practice : an evaluation study of a Dutch project

Thesis

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Contents

1: Introduction

2: Managed Care techniques in the Netherlands and their applicability in an Amsterdam project of quality-based-purchasing

3: Information in a Dutch general practitioners registration system about high risk on long-term sickness absence

4: A protocol improves general practitioners' recording of long-term sickness absence risk factors

5: Quality based purchasing: can it support quality improvement in general practice

6: Development of baseline performance information to enable general practitioners to initiate quality improvement

7: Compliance with a protocol of depressive disorder by general practitioners to initiate quality improvement

8: Competition or cooperation in quality-based purchasing?

9: A Dutch health care insurer in turbulent times: marketing, strategies and readiness for change

10: Quality based purchasing general practitioners' care: is there a level playing field?

11: General discussion, conclusions and recommendations

12: Summary

13: Samenvatting

Appendices

Dankwoord

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