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A comment on Time to Get Serious about Tick-Borne Diseases. Parent comment
Managing conditions is clearly a useful outcome.
Avoiding conditions is even better.
Payment based on some quality outcome measure -- QALY, or quality-adjusted life-years is one such standard.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality-adjusted_life_year
The Chinese healthcare model -- you pay the doctor when you're well -- is an alternative approach. (The doctor is obliged to try to get you well again.)
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Managing conditions is clearly a useful outcome.
Avoiding conditions is even better.
Payment based on some quality outcome measure -- QALY, or quality-adjusted life-years is one such standard.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality-adjusted_life_year
The Chinese healthcare model -- you pay the doctor when you're well -- is an alternative approach. (The doctor is obliged to try to get you well again.)