Effect of incentive payments on chronic disease management and health services use in British Columbia, Canada: Interrupted time series analysis

Social Sciences

• Canada 42%
• Chronic Diseases 71%
• chronic illness 18%
• continuity 15%
• eligible patients 15%
• health 4%
• health care 6%
• health service 51%
• hospitalization 60%
• hypertension 56%
• incentive 27%
• incentive payments 100%
• laboratory testing 25%
• management 30%
• medication 7%
• pharmaceutical 8%
• physician 13%
• regression 5%
• statistical significance 10%
• stroke 10%
• time series analysis 79%
• trend 4%

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Antihypertensive Agents 8%
• British Columbia 80%
• Canada 57%
• Chronic Disease 47%
• Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease 24%
• Continuity of Patient Care 21%
• Delivery of Health Care 5%
• Disease Management 63%
• Health 4%
• Health Care Outcome Assessment 5%
• Health Services 55%
• Heart Failure 6%
• Hospital Emergency Service 7%
• Hospitalization 40%
• Hypertension 29%
• Interrupted Time Series Analysis 88%
• Motivation 51%
• Patient Care 7%
• Pharmaceutical Preparations 3%
• Prescriptions 7%
• Primary Care Physicians 19%
• Primary Health Care 14%
• Stroke 6%