"Mind the gap!" Evaluation of the performance gap attributable to exception reporting and target thresholds in the new GMS contract: National database analysis

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Fleetcroft, Robert ^a   Steel, Nicholas ^a   Cookson, Richard ^b   Howe, Amanda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; PATIENT CARE; UNITED KINGDOM; ECONOMICS; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; REIMBURSEMENT; SALARY AND FRINGE BENEFIT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STANDARD;

CONTRACT SERVICES; FAMILY PRACTICE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; PHYSICIAN INCENTIVE PLANS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; REIMBURSEMENT, INCENTIVE; SALARIES AND FRINGE BENEFITS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STATE MEDICINE;

EID: 46449125631     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-8-131     Document Type: Article

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