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Ethnic Disparities in Blood Pressure Management in Patients With Hypertension After the Introduction of Pay for Performance |
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| Authors: | Christopher Millett Jeremy Gray Alex Bottle Azeem Majeed |
| Affiliation: | 1.Department of Primary Care & Social Medicine, Imperial College Faculty of Medicine, London, England;2.Wandsworth Primary Care Research Centre, Wandsworth Primary Care Trust, London, England |
| Abstract: | PURPOSE Little is known about the impact of pay-for-performance incentives on health care disparities. We examined ethnic disparities in the management of hypertension among patients with and without cardiovascular comorbidities after the implementation of a major pay-for-performance incentive scheme in UK primary care. |
| Keywords: | Pay for performance hypertension disease management blood pressure ethnicity cardiovascular diseases comorbidities primary care practice-based research |