Impact of a pay-for-performance incentive on support for smoking cessation and on smoking prevalence among people with diabetes

摘要

BackgroundMany people with diabetes continue to smoke despite being at high risk of cardiovascular disease. We examined the impact of a pay-for-performance incentive in the United Kingdom introduced in 2004 as part of the new general practitioner contract to improve support for smoking cessation and to reduce the prevalence of smoking among people with chronic diseases such as diabetes.