Incentive payments are not related to expected health gain in the pay for performance scheme for UK primary care: Cross-sectional analysis

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Physician incentive plans; Primary care; Quality indicators

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ECONOMICS; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; RISK MANAGEMENT; STANDARD; STATISTICS; UNITED KINGDOM;

CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FAMILY PRACTICE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH FACILITY SIZE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PHYSICIAN INCENTIVE PLANS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; RISK MANAGEMENT; STATE MEDICINE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 84859704760     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-12-94     Document Type: Article

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