It probably worked: a Bayesian approach to evaluating the introduction of activity-based hospital payment in Israel.

"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateNot applicable. Consent for publicationNot applicable. Competing interestsRuth Waitzberg is IJHPR assistant editor. Accordingly, she was not involved in the editorial aspects of the review process. Instead, the review process was managed by the IJHPR’s associate editors, who are not authors of this article. The authors declare no competing interests. Competing interests Ruth Waitzberg is IJHPR assistant editor. Accordingly, she was not involved in the editorial aspects of the review process. Instead, the review process was managed by the IJHPR’s associate editors, who are not authors of this article. The authors declare no competing interests."

"Funding Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL. This work was supported by an Israel National Institute for Health Policy Research (NIHP) (Grant number 77-16). The lead author, Ruth Waitzberg, thanks Minerva Stiftung for the support from the Minerva Fellowship. The NIHP and Minerva Stiftung were not involved in the study design, the collection, analysis and interpretation of data, the writing of the report, or the decision to submit the article for publication. The researchers are independent of the funders."