Background Pay-for-performance (P4P) is one of the primary tools used to support
healthcare delivery reform. Substantial heterogeneity exists in the development and …

Objectives To conduct a systematic review to identify studies that describe factors and
interventions at primary care practice level that impact on levels of utilisation of unscheduled …

Despite rising costs, health care often is of poor quality. 1-4 Current solutions to improving
quality may do more harm than good if they focus more on diseases than on people. 2, 5-9 …

Background Disparities in type 2 diabetes (T2D) care provision and clinical outcomes have
been reported in the last 2 decades in the UK. Since then, a number of initiatives have …

Background Unplanned hospital admissions place a large and increasing strain on
healthcare budgets worldwide. Many admissions for ambulatory care sensitive conditions …

Reforms giving users of public services choice of provider aim to improve quality. But such
reforms will work only if quality affects choice of provider. We test this crucial prerequisite in …

Objective. To investigate the association between indicators of quality of diabetic
management in English family practices and emergency hospital admissions for short‐term …

Purpose To measure the prevalence of physical and mental health comorbidities in people
with epilepsy in a large population cohort, and to examine the prevalence of depression …

We apply cross-sectional and panel data methods to a database of 5 million patients in 8000
English general practices to examine whether better primary care management of 10 …

Health economists are increasingly interested in integrated care in order to support decision-
makers to find cost-effective solutions able to tackle the threat that chronic diseases pose on …