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Research article:

Effect of financial incentives on incentivised and non-incentivised clinical activities: longitudinal analysis of data from the UK Quality and Outcomes Framework

Reference:

Doran, Tim; Kontopantelis, Evangelos; Valderas, Jose M; Campbell, Stephen; Roland, Martin; Salisbury, Chris; Reeves, David(2011) Effect of financial incentives on incentivised and non-incentivised clinical activities: longitudinal analysis of data from the UK Quality and Outcomes Framework. British Medical Journal, doi: 10.1136/bmj.d3590

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Abstract
Objective: To investigate whether the incentive scheme for UK general practitioners led them to neglect activities not included in the scheme. Design: Longitudinal analysis of achievement rates for 42 activities (23 included in incentive scheme, 19 not included) selected from 428 identified indicators of quality of care. Setting: 148 general practices in England (653 500 patients). Main outcome measures: Achievement rates projected from trends in the pre-incentive period (2000-1 to 2002-3) and actual rates in the first three years of the scheme (2004-5 to 2006-7). Results: Achievement rates improved for most indicators in the pre-incentive period. There were significant increases in the rate of improvement in the first year of the incentive scheme (2004-5) for 22 of the 23 incentivised indicators. Achievement for these indicators reached a plateau after 2004-5, but quality of care in 2006-7 remained higher than that predicted by pre-incentive trends for 14 incentivised indicators. There was no overall effect on the rate of improvement for non-incentivised indicators in the first year of the scheme, but by 2006-7 achievement rates were significantly below those predicted by pre-incentive trends. Conclusions: There were substantial improvements in quality for all indicators between 2001 and 2007. Improvements associated with financial incentives seem to have been achieved at the expense of small detrimental effects on aspects of care that were not incentivised.
Author for correspondence
Tim Doran
Email for correspondence
tim.doran@york.ac.uk

Code list: Heart failure / LVD

72 codes in list

Code Coding system Description Entity type List name QOF HF_analysis LVD_analysis
14A6.00 Read H/O: heart failure diagnostic Heart failure / LVD LVD Sensitivity
14AM.00 Read H/O: Heart failure in last year diagnostic Heart failure / LVD 0 Sensitivity
1O1..00 Read Heart failure confirmed diagnostic Heart failure / LVD 0 Main
585f.00 Read Echocardiogram shows left ventricular systolic dysfunction diagnostic Heart failure / LVD HF/LVD Main
585g.00 Read Echocardiogram shows left ventricular diastolic dysfunction diagnostic Heart failure / LVD HF/LVD Main
662f.00 Read New York Heart Association classification - class I diagnostic Heart failure / LVD 0 Sensitivity
662g.00 Read New York Heart Association classification - class II diagnostic Heart failure / LVD 0 Sensitivity
662h.00 Read New York Heart Association classification - class III diagnostic Heart failure / LVD 0 Sensitivity
662i.00 Read New York Heart Association classification - class IV diagnostic Heart failure / LVD 0 Sensitivity
662p.00 Read Heart failure 6 month review diagnostic Heart failure / LVD 0 Sensitivity
662T.00 Read Congestive heart failure monitoring diagnostic Heart failure / LVD 0 Sensitivity
662W.00 Read Heart failure annual review diagnostic Heart failure / LVD 0 Sensitivity
8B29.00 Read Cardiac failure therapy diagnostic Heart failure / LVD 0 Sensitivity
8CL3.00 Read Heart failure care plan discussed with patient diagnostic Heart failure / LVD 0 Sensitivity
8H2S.00 Read Admit heart failure emergency diagnostic Heart failure / LVD 0 Sensitivity
8HBE.00 Read Heart failure follow-up diagnostic Heart failure / LVD 0 Sensitivity
8HHb.00 Read Referral to heart failure nurse diagnostic Heart failure / LVD 0 Sensitivity
8HHz.00 Read Referral to heart failure exercise programme diagnostic Heart failure / LVD 0 Sensitivity
8Hk0.00 Read Referred to heart failure education group diagnostic Heart failure / LVD 0 Sensitivity
8HTL.00 Read Referral to heart failure clinic diagnostic Heart failure / LVD 0 Sensitivity
9N0k.00 Read Seen in heart failure clinic diagnostic Heart failure / LVD 0 Sensitivity
9N2p.00 Read Seen by community heart failure nurse diagnostic Heart failure / LVD 0 Sensitivity
9N6T.00 Read Referred by heart failure nurse specialist diagnostic Heart failure / LVD 0 Sensitivity
G1yz100 Read Rheumatic left ventricular failure diagnostic Heart failure / LVD 0 Main Main
G232.00 Read Hypertensive heart&renal dis wth (congestive) heart failure diagnostic Heart failure / LVD 0 Main
G234.00 Read Hyperten heart&renal dis+both(congestv)heart and renal fail diagnostic Heart failure / LVD 0 Main
G58..00 Read Heart failure diagnostic Heart failure / LVD 0 Main
G580.00 Read Congestive heart failure diagnostic Heart failure / LVD 0 Main
G580000 Read Acute congestive heart failure diagnostic Heart failure / LVD 0 Main
G580100 Read Chronic congestive heart failure diagnostic Heart failure / LVD 0 Main
G580.11 Read Congestive cardiac failure diagnostic Heart failure / LVD 0 Main
G580.12 Read Right heart failure diagnostic Heart failure / LVD 0 Main
G580.13 Read Right ventricular failure diagnostic Heart failure / LVD 0 Main
G580.14 Read Biventricular failure diagnostic Heart failure / LVD 0 Main Main
G580200 Read Decompensated cardiac failure diagnostic Heart failure / LVD 0 Main
G580300 Read Compensated cardiac failure diagnostic Heart failure / LVD 0 Main
G581.00 Read Left ventricular failure diagnostic Heart failure / LVD HF/LVD Main Main
G581000 Read Acute left ventricular failure diagnostic Heart failure / LVD HF/LVD Main Main
G58..11 Read Cardiac failure diagnostic Heart failure / LVD 0 Main
G581.11 Read Asthma - cardiac diagnostic Heart failure / LVD HF/LVD Main Main
G581.12 Read Pulmonary oedema - acute diagnostic Heart failure / LVD HF/LVD Main Main
G581.13 Read Impaired left ventricular function diagnostic Heart failure / LVD HF/LVD Main Main
G582.00 Read Acute heart failure diagnostic Heart failure / LVD 0 Main
G58z.00 Read Heart failure NOS diagnostic Heart failure / LVD 0 Main
G58z.11 Read Weak heart diagnostic Heart failure / LVD 0 Sensitivity
G58z.12 Read Cardiac failure NOS diagnostic Heart failure / LVD 0 Main
G5y4z00 Read Post cardiac operation heart failure NOS diagnostic Heart failure / LVD 0 Sensitivity
G5yy900 Read Left ventricular systolic dysfunction diagnostic Heart failure / LVD HF/LVD Main
G5yyA00 Read Left ventricular diastolic dysfunction diagnostic Heart failure / LVD HF/LVD Main
Q48y100 Read Congenital cardiac failure diagnostic Heart failure / LVD 0 Main
Q490.00 Read Neonatal cardiac failure diagnostic Heart failure / LVD 0 Main
SP11100 Read Cardiac insufficiency as a complication of care diagnostic Heart failure / LVD 0 Sensitivity
SP11111 Read Heart failure as a complication of care diagnostic Heart failure / LVD 0 Sensitivity
402 C OXMIS HYPERTENSION CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE diagnostic Heart failure / LVD 0 Main
4270 OXMIS CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE diagnostic Heart failure / LVD 0 Main
4270BD OXMIS FAILURE RIGHT VENTRICULAR OBSTRUCTION SY diagnostic Heart failure / LVD 0 Main
4270BN OXMIS SYNDROME BERNHEIM'S diagnostic Heart failure / LVD 0 Main
4270BT OXMIS SYNDROME RIGHT VENTRICULAR OBSTRUCTION diagnostic Heart failure / LVD 0 Main
4270C OXMIS CONGESTIVE CARDIAC FAILURE diagnostic Heart failure / LVD 0 Main
4270CC OXMIS CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE COMPENSATED diagnostic Heart failure / LVD 0 Main
4270D OXMIS CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE DECOMPENSATED diagnostic Heart failure / LVD 0 Main
4270DR OXMIS DROPSY CARDIAC diagnostic Heart failure / LVD 0 Main
4270LW OXMIS SYNDROME LOW-OUTPUT diagnostic Heart failure / LVD 0 Main
4270R OXMIS HEART FAILURE RIGHT-SIDED diagnostic Heart failure / LVD 0 Main
4271 OXMIS LVF (LEFT VENTRICULAR FAILURE) diagnostic Heart failure / LVD 0 Main Main
4271A OXMIS LEFT VENTRICULAR FAILURE ACUTE diagnostic Heart failure / LVD 0 Main Main
4271H OXMIS HEART FAILURE LEFT-SIDED diagnostic Heart failure / LVD 0 Main Main
428 A OXMIS INSUFFICIENCY CARDIAC diagnostic Heart failure / LVD 0 Main
7824A OXMIS HIGH OUTPUT FAILURE (CARDIAC) diagnostic Heart failure / LVD 0 Main
7824AC OXMIS HEART FAILURE ACUTE diagnostic Heart failure / LVD 0 Main
7824FC OXMIS FAILURE CARDIAC diagnostic Heart failure / LVD 0 Main
7824FH OXMIS HEART FAILURE diagnostic Heart failure / LVD 0 Main

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