Quality and outcomes framework achievement and unplanned admissions for cardiovascular disease.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Unplanned hospital admissions are costly and disproportionately affect people who are socioeconomically disadvantaged and from an ethnic minority group. A national primary care pay-for-performance scheme, the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF), was introduced in England in 2004 to financially incentivise general practices to meet a range of performance indicators, but the QOF's impact on unplanned hospital admissions remains unclear. We examined the association between unplanned hospital admissions for cardiovascular disease (CVD), individual-level characteristics and achievement of key QOF indicators for CVD at the patients' registered general practice.

Methods

This study used the Connected Bradford dataset, which links individual-level primary and secondary ca

SUBMITTER: Hou B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12495635 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature