Journal
HEALTH POLICY
Volume 124, Issue 8, Pages 849-855Publisher
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2020.04.002
Keywords
Non-monetary incentives; Accreditation; Job satisfaction; General practice; Denmark
Funding
- Research Unit for General Practice, University of Southern Denmark
- Danish Institute for Quality and Accreditation in Healthcare
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A critical question for policy makers in health care is whether external interventions have unintended consequences such as lowering professionals' job satisfaction. We investigate whether a non-monetary incentive, in the form of mandatory accreditation, affects the job satisfaction of Danish GPs. Accreditation of general practice in Denmark was introduced as a cluster randomised stepwise implementation from 2016 to 2018. We measure job satisfaction at three time points: before the randomisation took place, one year into the accreditation process and two years into the accreditation process. We use a balanced panel of GPs who have completed all three waves of the survey (n=846) and estimate a series of random and mixed effects ordered logit models. Despite many GPs having negative attitudes towards accreditation, we find no evidence of accreditation affecting GP job satisfaction. However, there are negative associations between job satisfaction and perceiving accreditation as a tool for external control. Policy makers are therefore encouraged to carefully inform about new interventions and identify barriers to diminish preexisting negative perceptions about the incentive. (C) 2020 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V.
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