If your last name begins with the letter A – I, you can access the survey online through:
https://websurvey.kuleuven.be/index.php?sid=38156&lang=en
If your last name begins with the letter J – R, you can access the survey online through:
https://websurvey.kuleuven.be/index.php?sid=61934&lang=en
If your last name begins with the letter S – Z, you can access the survey online through:
https://websurvey.kuleuven.be/index.php?sid=17456&lang=en
Thank you for your participation!
Background:
In times of both quality and cost challenges for health care across the world, payment mechanisms to remunerate care providers are under close scrutiny. Researchers and Policy makers are increasingly examining and/or implementing innovative schemes that alter the scope and criteria of payment. Next to Salary, Fee For Service, Prospective Payment and Capitation, new forms are introduced such as Pay for Performance, Shared Savings, Prometheus, Warranties, etc. Despite growing evidence of effects of payment methods, in the end how care providers are paid depends on the negotiation and preferences of multiple stakeholders (policy makers, physicians, etc.). At present we scarcely know the details of those preferences, how stakeholders value various payment system effects, which tradeoffs they make and how these choices differ between stakeholder groups. Three European Universities are currently organizing a survey study across the US, Canada, Australia and Europe to shed light on these issues. Healthcare policy makers, managers, researchers and physicians are invited to express their preferences for payment systems and payment effects. It will take about half an hour of your time to fill out the survey. The survey will remain open from December 2010 – March 2011. In exchange you will receive a detailed study report explaining the study findings, with comparisons across health systems and across stakeholder groups.
Societies inviting their members to participate (alphabetically):
Academy Health (Financing and Organization Initiative) – American Academy of Pediatrics – American College of Physician Executives – American College of Preventive Medicine – Association of Emergency Physicians – Australasian College of Health Service Management – Australian Healthcare and Hospital Association – Canadian Anesthesiologists’ Society – Canadian Association of General Surgeons – Canadian Association of Thoracic Surgeons – Canadian Dermatology Association – European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology – European Association of Hospital Managers – European Association of Neurosurgical Societies – European Association of Senior Hospital Physicians – European Association of Urology – European Federation of National Associations of Orthopaedics and Traumatology – European Federation of Neurological Societies – European Forum for Primary Care – European Health Management Association – European Hospital and Healthcare Federation – European Medical Association – European Neurology Society – European Paediatric Neurology Society – European Respiratory Society – European Society for Emergency Medicine – European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition – European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology – European Society of Anaesthesiology – European Society of Cardiology – International Health Economics Association – International Society for Quality in Health Care – Primary Care Diabetes Europe – Society of Gynecologic Oncologists of Canada – Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand – Transplantation Society of Australia and New Zealand – Vasco da Gama Movement