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Nature Clinical Practice Cardiovascular Medicine (2008) 5, 134-135
doi:10.1038/ncpcardio1069  
Received 18 September 2007 | Accepted 9 October 2007 | Published online: 4 December 2007

Pay for performance in myocardial infarction: are we reaping the rewards?

Laura A Petersen

Correspondence Houston Veterans Affairs Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies (152), 2002 Holcombe Boulevard, Houston, TX 77030, USA

Email
 laurap@bcm.tmc.edu

This article has no abstract so we have provided the first paragraph of the full text.

Highly-quality, observational studies, such as the one by Glickman and colleagues, provide a critical contribution to our understanding about whether health-policy interventions are effective at improving health-care quality. This study is one of the first to evaluate the pay-for-performance pilot project conducted by Premier Inc. and CMS.1

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