Table 1.

Eligibility criteria, exclusion criteria, and required period for preventive service provision in a pay-for-performance family practice setting

SERVICE	ELIGIBLE POPULATION	EXCLUSION CRITERIA	REQUIRED PERIOD FOR SERVICE PROVISION*
Papanicolaou smear	Enrolled women aged 35 to 69 y	Previous hysterectomy	Documented service within the past 30 mo before March 31
Screening mammograms	Enrolled women aged 50 to 69 y	History of breast cancer	Documented service within the past 30 mo before March 31
Influenza vaccination	Enrolled patients aged 65 y or older	None	Documented service from October 1st to December 31st of previous y
Fecal occult blood test	Enrolled patients aged 50 to 74 y	History of colorectal cancer; history of inflammatory bowel disease; colonoscopy within the past 5 y	Documented service in the past 30 mo before March 31
5 completed primary immunizations (4 diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio, and Haemophilus influenzae type b vaccinations and 1 MMR vaccination)†	Enrolled children age 30 to 42 mo as of March 31	None	Documented completion of vaccinations within the past 12 mo before March 31

MMR—measles, mumps, and rubella.

^*The fiscal year end in Ontario’s health care system is March 31; therefore, March 31, 2007, would be considered the 2006 year end and March 31, 2008, would be the 2007 year end.

^†Children’s vaccination scores were ultimately excluded from this study as lists of eligible children for 2006 could not be obtained in the non-EMR cohort.