Pay-for-Performance: Not a Magic Bullet
Authors: Martin Roland
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (2012)

Editorials18 December 2012Pay-for-Performance: Not a Magic BulletMartin Roland, DMMartin Roland, DMFrom University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0SR, United Kingdom.Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-157-12-201212180-00014 SectionsSupplemental MaterialAboutFull TextPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail This article has been corrected. The original version (PDF) is appended to this article as a supplement.On 20 July 1854, an advertisement in the New York Daily Tribune announced Deseler's "new cure for fever and ague." Aside from wanting to know the constituents of the cure (possibly arsenic), contemporary physicians would want to know more about this new treatment—the types of fever it aided, the optimum dose, side effects, and so on. 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