Association between fee-for-service expenditures and morbidity burden in primary care.

Background: In primary care, fee-for-services (FFS) tariffs are often based on political negotiation rather than costing systems. The potential for comprehensive measures of patient morbidity to explain variation in negotiated FFS expenditures has not previously been examined.

Objectives: To examine the relative explanatory power of morbidity measures and related general practice (GP) clinic characteristics in explaining variation in politically negotiated FFS expenditures.

The Danish Centre for Strategic Research in Type 2 Diabetes (DD2): organization of diabetes care in Denmark and supplementary data sources for data collection among DD2 study participants.

This paper provides a short overview of the Danish health care system and the organization of care for type 2 diabetes patients in Denmark. It also describes the supplementary data sources that are used for collection of baseline data in the nationwide Danish Centre for Strategic Research in Type 2 Diabetes (DD2) Project. The Danish National Health Service provides tax-funded medical care for all 5.

The danish model for improvement of diabetes care in general practice: impact of automated collection and feedback of patient data.

Background. Sentinel Data Capture is an IT program designed to collect data automatically from GPs' electronic health record system. Data include ICPC diagnoses, National Health Service disbursement codes, laboratory analysis, and prescribed drugs.

Multimorbidity and blood pressure control in 37 651 hypertensive patients from Danish general practice.

Background: Patients with hypertension are primarily treated in general practice. However, major studies of patients with hypertension are rarely based on populations from primary care. Knowledge of blood pressure (BP) control rates in patients with diabetes and/or cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), who have additional comorbidities, is lacking.

[Data collection perspectives from patient care in general practice].

GPs in Denmark have a unique civil registration system with personal ID-numbers, a patient list system and a gatekeeper function. A piece of software (Data Capture) has been developed to automatically collect and send prescriptions, lab tests, expense items and diagnosis information from the physician's patient files to the Danish General Practice Database (DAMD). Furthermore, project-related information can be captured by a pop up screen.

Estimating incidence and prevalence of episodes of care in general practice.

Objectives: To develop methods for prospective registration and analysis of episodes of care (one or more contacts about the same health problem). To compare estimates of point prevalence and incidence of hypertension among a group of elderly patients by means of an elaborate coding of episodes and a new method based on routine coding of contact diagnoses.

Design: Prospective longitudinal cohort study.