P4P: Looking abroad

P4P is all the rage here. Robert Centor suggests looking at what’s been going on in the UK first:

The whole initiative is based on reductive linear reasoning that views the body as a machine and assumes that a standardised treatment will produce an equally standard unit of beneficial outcome. However, any practising clinician knows that the same treatment applied to two people with the same diagnosis can produce very different outcomes.

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