The Quality and Outcomes Framework: what have you done to yourselves?

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

38 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Negotiating the polypharmacy paradox: a video-reflexive ethnography study of polypharmacy and its practices in primary care.BMJ quality & safety · 2023
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2. Endorsing performance measures is a matter of trust.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2018
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3. Secrecy and coercion in the QOF: a scandal averted?The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2017
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4. How could the quality and outcomes framework (QOF) do more to tackle health inequalities?London journal of primary care · 2016
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5. Financial incentives and professionalism: another fine mess.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2015
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6. Performance management: can patients' autonomy be protected?The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2015
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7. AHRQ prevention quality indicators to assess the quality of primary care of local providers: a pilot study from Italy.European journal of public health · 2014
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8. Why did most French GPs choose not to join the voluntary national pay-for-performance program?PloS one · 2013
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9. Medicine an evolving profession.The Australasian medical journal · 2013
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10. Persistent frequent attenders in primary care: costs, reasons for attendance, organisation of care and potential for cognitive behavioural therapeutic intervention.BMC family practice · 2012
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11. Family doctor responses to changes in incentives for influenza immunization under the U.K. Quality and Outcomes Framework pay-for-performance scheme.Health services research · 2012
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12. Quality assuring GPs and their practices.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2012
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13. Payment for performance and the QOF: are we doing the right thing?The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2012
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14. Holding relationships in primary care: a qualitative exploration of doctors' and patients' perceptions.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2011
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15. The QOF, NICE, and depression: a clumsy mechanism that undermines clinical judgment.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2011
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16. Ethnic differences in blood pressure monitoring and control in south east London.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2011
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17. Questionnaire severity measures for depression: a threat to the doctor-patient relationship?The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2011
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18. Standards of lithium monitoring in mental health Ttrusts in the UK.BMC psychiatry · 2010
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19. Quality and Outcomes Framework: time to take stock.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2010
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20. Do financial incentives for delivering health promotion counselling work? Analysis of smoking cessation activities stimulated by the quality and outcomes framework.BMC public health · 2010
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Authors and funding

2 authors.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

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