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The uptake of childhood immunization and financial incentives to general practitioners

✍ Scribed by Dr. Mauricea Lima Lynch

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1994
Tongue
English
Weight
728 KB
Volume
3
Category
Article
ISSN
1057-9230

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✦ Synopsis

Among the target-linked services introduced by the 1990 general practitioners' contract, childhood immunization in Scotland is the best suited for GPs to achieve the high target, given a centralized call and recall system and public confidence in the service. Yet over 25% of the practices in the area of the Greater Glasgow Health Board did not qualify for the high target payments in the last quarter of the 1991/92 financial year. Examining indicators of the socioeconomic characteristics of the patient population, practice profiles and the effect of financial incentives, we discuss the reasons for cross-practice variation in the uptake of this service and estimate the probability of practices which missed the high target achieving it in the future.

KEY woms-Childhood immunization, financial incentives, General Practitioners.

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