Metrics, particularly those assessing physician productivity, resource utilization,
or quality, are increasingly used to measure emergency physician performance for a
range of purposes including quality improvement (QI) and even annual compensation.
While prior work has shown complicated relationships between these measures at the
facility level [
[1]
], little work has examined whether these common measures compete or balance each
other at the physician level, which may substantially influence the incentives faced
by physicians, and thus, the care decisions made in the ED.To read this article in full you will need to make a payment
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Article Info
Publication History
Published online: February 03, 2021
Accepted:
January 26,
2021
Received:
January 22,
2021
Publication stage
In Press Journal Pre-ProofIdentification
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