Observational studyBioMed research international2018
Improving the Recording of Diagnoses in Primary Care with Team Incentives: A Controlled Longitudinal Follow-Up Study.
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- Identifying proximal humerus fractures: an algorithmic approach using registers and radiological visit data.Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA · 2025Article
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- Who visits primary health care general practitioners and why? A register-based study in a Finnish city.International journal of circumpolar health · 2024Article
- Combining Register and Radiological Visits Data Allows to Reliably Identify Incident Wrist Fractures.Clinical epidemiology · 2023Article
- Comparing the effectiveness of competition as a method of reminding primary oral health care dentists to record diagnoses with two alternative methods used to enhance the recording of diagnoses in primary health care.International journal of circumpolar health · 2022Observational
- New reimbursement model in Icelandic primary care in 2017: first-year comparison of public and private primary care.Scandinavian journal of primary health care · 2022Article
- Do electronic reminders alter recorded diagnoses in primary care office-hours practices of health centers: A register-based study in a Finnish city.SAGE open medicine · 2021Article
- Recording of diagnoses in public primary oral health care in a retrospective longitudinal observational study in a Finnish town: Underrepresentation of periodontitis diagnoses.Clinical and experimental dental research · 2020Observational
- The effect of electronic reminders on the recording of diagnoses in primary care: A quasi-experimental before and after study.SAGE open medicine · 2020Article
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Abstract
introductionWe studied whether primary care teams respond to financial group bonuses by improving the recording of diagnoses, whether this intervention leads to diagnoses reflecting the anticipated distribution of diseases, and how the recording of a significant chronic disease, diabetes, alters after the application of these bonuses.
methodsWe performed an observational register-based retrospective quasi-experimental follow-up study with before-and-after setting and two control groups in primary healthcare of a Finnish town. We studied the rate of recorded diagnoses in visits to general practitioners with interrupted time series analysis. The distribution of these diagnoses was also recorded.
resultsAfter group bonuses, the rate of recording diagnoses increased by 17.9% (95% CI: 13.6-22.3) but not in either of the controls (-2.0 to -0.3%). The increase in the rate of recorded diagnoses in the care teams varied between 14.9% (4.7-25.2) and 33.7% (26.6-41.3). The distribution of recorded diagnoses resembled the respective distribution of diagnoses in the former studies of diagnoses made in primary care. The rate of recorded diagnoses of diabetes did not increase just after the intervention.
conclusionsIn primary care, the completeness of diagnosis recording can be, to varying degrees, influenced by group bonuses without guarantee that recording of clinically significant chronic diseases is improved.
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