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Mark Ashworth
Researcher at King's College London
Publications - 279
Citations - 6537
Mark Ashworth is an academic researcher from King's College London. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 37, co-authored 245 publications receiving 5284 citations. Previous affiliations of Mark Ashworth include University of Cambridge.
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GP Training practices in England: a description of their unique features based on national data
TL;DR: Previous findings regarding QOF achievement and patient experience derived from the General Practice Patient Survey are extended, with recent data on the use of urgent cancer referral pathways and secondary care utilisation by GP training Practices.
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Response bias to a randomised controlled trial of a lifestyle intervention in people at high risk of cardiovascular disease: a cross-sectional analysis.
Adam Bayley,Daniel Stahl,Mark Ashworth,Derek G Cook,Peter H. Whincup,Janet Treasure,Anne Greenough,Katie Ridge,Kirsty Winkley,Khalida Ismail +9 more
TL;DR: Evaluations of interventions intended for those at high risk of CVD may fail to reach those at highest risk, and hard to reach patient groups may require different recruitment strategies to maximise participation in future trials.
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Re: GPs' views on computerized drug interaction alerts
TL;DR: The authors suggest that ‘consultation workload’ could be looked at ‘to see whether time could be made for properly checking prescribing hazardalerts’ and that an error reporting system with appropriate safe-guards were part of accreditation, it would ensure that drug interaction alerts were ignored less often.
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Pay for performance systems in general practice: experience in the United Kingdom
Mark Ashworth,Roger Jones +1 more
TL;DR: P4P has raised the quality of primary care in the UK, but broader performance indicators are needed to accurately reflect the scope of general practice.
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Quality and Outcomes Framework: time to take stock.
Mark Ashworth,Maria Kordowicz +1 more
TL;DR: It is shown that QOF was implemented as a pay-for-performance (P4P) system, structured so that it contained evidence-based indicators and was weighted according to the anticipated workload demands that each indicator would place on an average general practice.