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Systematic review of the use of financial incentives in treatments for obesity and overweight [PDF]

open access: yesObesity Reviews, 2008
Nine studies met the criteria for inclusion in this systematic review of randomized controlled trials of treatments for obesity and overweight involving the use of financial incentives, with reported follow-up of at least 1 year. All included trials were
Alison Avenell
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Financial Incentives to Physicians

New England Journal of Medicine, 1986
Physicians are under increasing pressure from hospitals and managed care plans to practice more efficiently. The focus is no longer on a minority of outliers but instead on the practice patterns of most physicians, since it is recognized that large savings are possible only when doctors as a group move in the direction of greater efficiency.
R H, Egdahl, C H, Taft
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Financial incentives for surrogacy

Women's Health Issues, 1991
T he Ethics Committee of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), in their statement Ethical Issues in Surrogate Motherhood, a challenges the enforceability of surrogacy contracts, recommending ' . . . a specified period of time after birth during which the surrogate mother is free to depart from the preconception agreement and ...
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Financial Incentives to Physicians

Annals of Internal Medicine, 1976
Excerpt To the editor: I have just read the paper by Lyle and associates (Ann Intern Med84:594-601, 1976).
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Financial incentives

In Practice, 2014
THIS series gives readers the opportunity to consider and contribute to discussion of some of the ethical dilemmas that can arise in veterinary practice. Each month, a case scenario is presented, followed by discussion of some of the issues involved.In addition, a possible way forward is suggested; however, there is rarely a cut‐and‐dried answer in ...
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Financial incentives and the "performance of crowds"

Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Human Computation, 2009
The relationship between financial incentives and performance, long of interest to social scientists, has gained new relevance with the advent of web-based "crowd-sourcing" models of production. Here we investigate the effect of compensation on performance in the context of two experiments, conducted on Amazon's Mechanical Turk (AMT).
Winter A. Mason, Duncan J. Watts
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Financial Incentives for Childhood Immunization

Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 1995
For "at least half a century, economists have believed that governments should use financial incentives to correct many social problems" [Baumol and Mills, 1984]. Yet "when one plunges into the previous work on incentives, one is struck . . by the abundance of exhortation urging greater use of incentive plans, and by the dearth of useful propositions ...
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