Do psychiatric and general medical conditions comorbid with bipolar disorder in the National Hospital Discharge Survey?
Patients with bipolar disorder have an increased illness burden from many psychiatric and general medical conditions. Knowledge of the most prevalent comorbid conditions and methods for their prevention, early diagnosis, and treatment are critical in improving the prognosis of patients with bipolar disorder.
Despite perverse P4P incentives to change allocation of efforts across tasks to maximize performance scores at lowest cost, we find little evidence that hospitals respond to P4P incentives as hypothesized. Alternative incentive structures may motivate greater response by targeted hospitals.