Are increases in emergency use and hospitalisation always a bad thing? Reflections on unintended consequences and apparent backfires.

What it found

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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

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Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

1. Interventions to increase patient and family involvement in escalation of care for acute life-threatening illness in community health and hospital settings.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2020
   Pooled it
2. Reimagining procedural distress as a candidate quality domain in pediatric emergency medicine.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2026
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3. Examining organisational responses to performance-based financial incentive systems: a case study using NHS staff influenza vaccination rates from 2012/2013 to 2019/2020.BMJ quality & safety · 2022
   Observational
4. Impact of Team-Based Care on Emergency Department Use.Annals of family medicine
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5. Health Care Utilization After a Visit to a Within-Group Family Physician vs a Walk-In Clinic Physician.Annals of family medicine
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Corrections and comments

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  Effects and costs of implementing predictive risk stratification in primary care: a randomised stepped wedge trial.2019

Authors and funding

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Funding

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Abstract

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