The 'Quality and Outcomes Framework': Improving care, but are all patients benefiting?

Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine

Volumn 101, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 432-433

  Koshy, Elizabeth ^a   Millett, Christopher ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DIABETES MELLITUS; EDITORIAL; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; PRESCRIPTION; QUALITY AND OUTCOMES FRAMEWORK; SEX DIFFERENCE;

EID: 51849159290     PISSN: 01410768     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/jrsm.2008.070243     Document Type: Editorial

References (14)

1. Shekelle P. New contract for General Practitioners. BMJ 2003;326:457-8
2. Cambell S, Reeves D, Kontopantelis E, Middleton E, Sibbald B, Roland M. Quality of primary care in England with the introduction of pay for performance. NEJM 2007;357:181-90
3. Chien AT, Chin MH, Davis AM, Casalino LP. Pay for performance, public reporting, and racial disparities in health care: how are programs being designed? Med Care Res Rev 2007;64(5 Suppl):283S-304S
4. Doran T, Fullwood C, Gravelle H, et al. Pay-for-performance programs in family practices in the United Kingdom. NEJM 2006;355:375-84
5. Ashworth M, Armstrong D. The relationship between general practice characteristics and quality of care: a national survey of quality indicators used in the UK Quality and Outcomes Framework, 2004-5. BMC Fam Pract 2006;7:68
6. McLean G, Sutton M, Guthrie B. Deprivation and quality of primary care services: evidence for persistence of the inverse care law from the UK Quality and Outcomes Framework. J Epidemiol Community Health 2006;60:917- 22
7. Saxena S, Car J, Eldred D, Soljak M, Majeed A. Practice size, caseload, deprivation and quality of care of patients with coronary heart disease, hypertension and stroke in primary care: national cross-sectional study. BMC Health Serv Res 2007;7:96
8. Millett C, Car J, Eldred D, Khunti K, Mainous AG 3rd, Majeed A. Diabetes prevalence, process of care and outcomes in relation to practice size, caseload and deprivation: national cross-sectional study in primary care. J R Soc Med 2007;100:275-83
9. Ashworth M, Seed P, Armstrong D, Durbaba S, Jones R. The relationship between social deprivation and the quality of primary care: a national survey using indicators from the UK Quality and Outcomes Framework. Br J Gen Pract 2007;57:441-8
10. Sigfrid LA, Turner C, Crook D, Ray S. Using the UK primary care Quality and Outcomes Framework to audit health care equity: preliminary data on diabetes management. J Public Health (Oxf) 2006;28:221-5
11. Millett C, Gray J, Saxena S, Netuveli G, Khunti K, Majeed A. Ethnic disparities in diabetes management and pay-for-performance in the UK: the Wandsworth Prospective Diabetes Study. PLoS Med 2007;4:e191
12. Gray J, Millett C, Saxena S, Netuveli G, Khunti K, Majeed A. Ethnicity and quality of diabetes care in a health system with universal coverage: population-based cross-sectional survey in primary care. J Gen Intern Med 2007;22:1317-20
13. Millett C, Gray J, Saxena S, Netuveli G, Majeed A. Impact of a pay-for-performance incentive on support for smoking cessation and on smoking prevalence among people with diabetes. CMAJ 2007;176:1705-10
14. CONDUIT. A report from Wandsworth Primary Care Research Centre. London: WPCRC. Available at http://www1.imperial.ac.uk/resources/57A0BFF3-F943- 4C7A-8ECA-0D2BBAFD06E6/p7