Modelling factors in primary care quality improvement: a cross-sectional study of premature CHD mortality.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To identify features of primary care quality improvement associated with improved health outcomes using premature coronary heart disease (CHD) mortality as an example, and to determine impacts of different modelling approaches.

Design

Cross-sectional study of mortality rates in 229 general practices.

Setting

General practices from three East Midlands primary care trusts.

Participants

Patients registered to the practices above between April 2006 and March 2009.

Main outcome measures

Numbers of CHD deaths in those aged under 75 (premature mortality) and at all ages in each practice.

Results

Population characteristics and markers of quality of primary care were associated with variations in premature CHD mortality. Increasing levels of dep

SUBMITTER: Honeyford K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3808822 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature