Jeff Green wrote:
> I was thinking of a practice that had an excellent score for treating
> those e.g. hypothyroid patients that it declared as hypothyroid but
> was actually prescribing thyroxine to three times as many patients.
>
> This could show up as an unusually low prevalence of hypothyroid
> patients for that practice.
>
> There is then a responsibility on the PCT to ensure that the
> prevalence reported by that practice is accurate.
>
> This then leads on to reducing payments to reflect that the reported
> prevalence (and hence score for testing a percentage of those
> patients) is wrong.
>
> Jeff
The software that will be analysing our performance starts off by
looking for all eligible patients.
All those on thyroxine is the baseline
Trefor
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