期刊
DIABETIC MEDICINE
卷 28, 期 5, 页码 525-531出版社
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-5491.2011.03251.x
关键词
diabetes; exclusion; financial incentives; pay-for-performance; primary care
资金
- NHS Ealing
- Higher Education Funding Council for England
- National Institute for Health Research
- NIHR Biomedical Research Centre
- NIHR
- Imperial Centre for Patient Safety and Service Quality
- National Institute for Health
- National Institute for Health Research [08/1716/209] Funding Source: researchfish
Background We examined associations between patient and practice characteristics and exclusions from quality indicators for diabetes during the first 3 years of the Quality and Outcomes Framework, a major pay-for-performance scheme in the UK. Methods Three cross-sectional analyses, conducted using data from the electronic medical records of all patients with diabetes registered in 23 general practices in Brent, North West London between 2004/2005 and 2006/2007. Patterns of exclusions were examined for three intermediate outcome indicators. Results Excluded patients were less likely to achieve treatment targets for HbA(1c) (2004/2005, 2006/2007), blood pressure (2005/2006, 2006/2007) and cholesterol (2005/2006). Black and South Asian patients were more likely to be excluded from the HbA(1c) indicator than White patients [adjusted odds ratio = 1.64 (1.17-2.29) in 2005/2006]. Patients diagnosed with diabetes duration of > 10 years [adjusted odds ratio = 2.01 (1.65-2.45) for HbA(1c) in 2006-2007] and those with co-morbidities (adjusted odds ratio, 3 co-morbidities compared with no co-morbidity for HbA(1c) adjusted odds ratio = 1.90 (1.24-2.90) in 2004/2005] were more likely to be excluded. Larger practices excluded more patients from the HbA(1c) indicator [adjusted odds ratio, practice >= 7000 compared with < 3000, 3.52 (2.35-5.27) in 2005-2006]. More deprived practices consistently excluded more patients from all indicators, whilst in 2007 older patients were excluded to a larger degree [adjusted odds ratio = 2.52 (1.21-5.28) >= 75 compared with 18-44 for blood pressure control]. Conclusions Patients excluded from pay-for-performance programmes may be less likely to achieve treatment goals and disproportionately come from disadvantaged groups. Permitting physicians to exclude patients from pay-for-performance programmes may worsen health disparities. Diabet. Med. 28, 525-531 (2011)
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