Sentence examples for linked to payments from inspiring English sources

19 DPC/PDPS is a case-mix patient classification system that has been linked to payments at acute care hospitals in Japan since 2003.

We also included the requirements for the survey outlined in the Department of Health tender, which contained issues which the Department believed to be of importance to patients, as well as specific issues which were linked to payments in the general practitioner contract.

The UK fertility regulator, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), has issued guidance to clinics that embryo storage periods must not be linked to payment arrangements.

Participants stated that if markers are linked to payment yet failed to capture the clinical context and the challenges of general practice there may be unintended consequences.

This could be due to various factors but indicates lower levels of recording in England than in the US, where the recording of adverse events or complications is linked to payment systems.

In particular, the reporting systems linked to payment, accreditation, and peer pressure from public benchmarking have made quality measurement and improvement higher priorities for hospital leadership and achieved better results [ 42].

Resource consumption is a widely used proxy for severity of illness, and is often measured through a case-mix index (CMI) based on Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs), which is commonly linked to payment.

QOF is a system for the performance management of general practitioners in the National Health Service (NHS) in the UK and since this is linked to payment the registers are well maintained.

The inclusion of other provisioning services such as drinking water supply and their linking to Payments for Environmental Services schemes would be important to communicate the benefits people obtain directly from ES (Rodriguez et al. 2006).

It was offered under the government's "sector-based work academy scheme", which is linked to benefits payments.

On August 4 2003, Chung Mong-hun jumped to his death from his 12th-floor office, while facing embezzlement charges linked to secret payments to Pyongyang.