The effects of financial incentives for case finding for depression in patients with diabetes and coronary heart disease: Interrupted time series analysis

BMJ Open

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  McLintock, Kate ^a   Russell, Amy M ^a   Alderson, Sarah L ^a   West, Robert ^a   House, Allan ^a   Westerman, Karen ^b   Foy, Robbie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; PRESCRIPTION DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CASE FINDING; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; DATA EXTRACTION; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FINANCIAL INCENTIVE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; GENERAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT CODING; PRESCRIPTION; REGISTER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TREND STUDY; UNITED KINGDOM; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORONARY DISEASE; ECONOMICS; EVALUATION STUDY; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PSYCHOLOGY; REIMBURSEMENT; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; CORONARY DISEASE; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; GENERAL PRACTICE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INTERRUPTED TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PHYSICIAN INCENTIVE PLANS; PHYSICIANS, PRIMARY CARE; PRESCRIPTIONS; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; REIMBURSEMENT, INCENTIVE;

EID: 84940293508     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2014-005178     Document Type: Article

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