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Docs: Public reporting would jeopardize care
Quality Improvement Monitor, March 9, 2007
Three of four primary-care doctors think financial bonuses would boost medical performance, but worry that public reporting would jeopardize care, according to United Press International (UPI).
A study the University of Chicago, found that 88% of the 550 general internists who participated thought that current quality measures would not be accurate; about 66% did not think that health plans and the government would try to make the measures accurate; 85% thought that socioeconomic status was not adequately considered; and 82% worried that flawed quality assessments would encourage physicians to avoid high-risk or disadvantaged patients, UPI reported.
"I have 10 to 15 patients whom I would have to fire," said one respondent. "The poor, unmotivated, obese, and noncompliant would all have to find new physicians."
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