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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: otitis media

69 codes in list

Code Coding system Description Entity type List name analysis
A552.00 Read Postmeasles otitis media diagnostic otitis media Main
F51..00 Read Nonsuppurative otitis media + eustachian tube disorders diagnostic otitis media Main
F510.00 Read Acute non suppurative otitis media diagnostic otitis media Main
F510000 Read Acute otitis media with effusion diagnostic otitis media Main
F510011 Read Acute secretory otitis media diagnostic otitis media Main
F510100 Read Acute serous otitis media diagnostic otitis media Main
F510200 Read Acute mucoid otitis media diagnostic otitis media Main
F510300 Read Acute sanguinous otitis media diagnostic otitis media Main
F510400 Read Acute allergic serous otitis media diagnostic otitis media Main
F510500 Read Acute allergic mucoid otitis media diagnostic otitis media Main
F510600 Read Acute allergic sanguinous otitis media diagnostic otitis media Main
F510z00 Read Acute nonsuppurative otitis media NOS diagnostic otitis media Main
F511.00 Read Chronic otitis media with effusion; serous diagnostic otitis media Main
F511100 Read Serosanguinous chronic otitis media diagnostic otitis media Main
F511.11 Read Chronic secretory otitis media; serous diagnostic otitis media Main
F511z00 Read Chronic serous otitis media NOS diagnostic otitis media Main
F512.00 Read Chronic otitis media with effusion; mucoid diagnostic otitis media Main
F512100 Read Mucosanguinous chronic otitis media diagnostic otitis media Main
F512.12 Read Chronic secretory otitis media; mucoid diagnostic otitis media Main
F512z00 Read Chronic mucoid otitis media NOS diagnostic otitis media Main
F513.00 Read Chronic otitis media with effusion; other diagnostic otitis media Main
F513000 Read Chronic allergic otitis media diagnostic otitis media Main
F513100 Read Chronic otitis media with effusion; purulent diagnostic otitis media Main
F513111 Read Chronic secretory otitis media; purulent diagnostic otitis media Main
F513z00 Read Other chronic nonsuppurative otitis media NOS diagnostic otitis media Main
F514.00 Read Unspecified nonsuppurative otitis media diagnostic otitis media Main
F514000 Read Allergic otitis media NOS diagnostic otitis media Main
F514100 Read Serous otitis media NOS diagnostic otitis media Main
F514200 Read Catarrhal otitis media NOS diagnostic otitis media Main
F514300 Read Mucoid otitis media NOS diagnostic otitis media Main
F514z00 Read Nonsuppurative otitis media NOS diagnostic otitis media Main
F518.00 Read Chronic otitis media with effusion; unspecified diagnostic otitis media Main
F52..00 Read Suppurative and unspecified otitis media diagnostic otitis media Main
F520.00 Read Acute suppurative otitis media diagnostic otitis media Main
F520000 Read Acute suppurative otitis media tympanic membrane intact diagnostic otitis media Main
F520100 Read Acute suppurative otitis media tympanic membrane ruptured diagnostic otitis media Main
F520300 Read Acute suppurative otitis media due to disease EC diagnostic otitis media Main
F520z00 Read Acute suppurative otitis media NOS diagnostic otitis media Main
F521.00 Read Chronic suppurative otitis media; tubotympanic diagnostic otitis media Main
F522.00 Read Chronic suppurative otitis media; atticoantral diagnostic otitis media Main
F523.00 Read Chronic suppurative otitis media NOS diagnostic otitis media Main
F524.00 Read Purulent otitis media NOS diagnostic otitis media Main
F524000 Read Bilateral suppurative otitis media diagnostic otitis media Main
F525.00 Read Recurrent acute otitis media diagnostic otitis media Main
F526.00 Read Acute left otitis media diagnostic otitis media Main
F527.00 Read Acute right otitis media diagnostic otitis media Main
f528.00 Read Acute bilateral otitis media diagnostic otitis media Main
F528.00 Read Acute bilateral otitis media diagnostic otitis media Main
F52z.00 Read Otitis media NOS diagnostic otitis media Main
FyuP000 Read [X]Other acute nonsuppurative otitis media diagnostic otitis media Main
FyuP100 Read [X]Other chronic nonsuppurative otitis media diagnostic otitis media Main
FyuP200 Read [X]Other chronic suppurative otitis media diagnostic otitis media Main
FyuP300 Read [X]Otitis media in bacterial diseases classified elsewhere diagnostic otitis media Main
FyuP400 Read [X]Otitis media in viral diseases classified elsewhere diagnostic otitis media Main
FyuP500 Read [X]Otitis media in other diseases classified elsewhere diagnostic otitis media Main
SN30.11 Read Aero-otitis media diagnostic otitis media Main
3810 OXMIS OTITIS MEDIA ACUTE diagnostic otitis media Main
3810ML OXMIS OTITIS MEDIA ACUTE LEFT diagnostic otitis media Main
3810MR OXMIS OTITIS MEDIA ACUTE RIGHT diagnostic otitis media Main
3811A OXMIS OTITIS MEDIA CHRONIC diagnostic otitis media Main
3811AR OXMIS RECURRENT OTITIS MEDIA diagnostic otitis media Main
3811AT OXMIS OTITIS MEDIA CATARRHAL diagnostic otitis media Main
3811D OXMIS OTITIS MEDIA CHRONIC SUPPURATIVE diagnostic otitis media Main
3811E OXMIS OTITIS MEDIA BILATERAL SUPPURATIVE diagnostic otitis media Main
3811TR OXMIS SECRETORY OTITIS MEDIA diagnostic otitis media Main
3819 OXMIS OTITIS MEDIA diagnostic otitis media Main
3819E OXMIS OTITIS MEDIA BILATERAL diagnostic otitis media Main
3819MP OXMIS SUPPURATIVE OTITIS MEDIA diagnostic otitis media Main
3829 OXMIS OTITIS MEDIA WITH MASTOIDITIS diagnostic otitis media Main

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