David Reeves

TL;DR: Evaluating the impact of doctor-nurse substitution in primary care on patient outcomes, process of care, and resource utilisation suggested that appropriately trained nurses can produce as high quality care as primary care doctors and achieve as good health outcomes for patients.

TL;DR: English family practices attained high levels of achievement in the first year of the new pay-for-performance contract, and a small number of practices appear to have achieved high scores by excluding large numbers of patients by exception reporting.

TL;DR: Against a background of increases in the quality of care before the pay-for-performance scheme was introduced, the scheme accelerated improvements in quality for two of three chronic conditions in the short term, however, once targets were reached, the improvement in theQuality of care for patients with these conditions slowed, and thequality of care declined for two conditions that had not been linked to incentives.

TL;DR: The advantages, disadvantages, and underlying assumptions of various modelling approaches are discussed using published examples to evaluate an intervention effect, using longitudinal data.

TL;DR: People who showed more demanding challenging behavior were more likely to need greater levels of assistance in eating, dressing and washing, be incontinent and have more restricted expressive and receptive communication.