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. 2021 Jan 20;2021(1):CD011865. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD011865.pub2

Jensen 2014.

Study characteristics
Methods Controlled before‐after study
Participants General practitioners
Interventions Denmark
Intervention: mixed system of capitation and FFS contracts. GPs in Copenhagen moved from pure capitation to a mix of one‐third capitation and two‐thirds FFS contracts.
Control: pure capitation contracts
Years 1984 to 1988, intervention happened in 1987
Outcomes Patient outcomes
Birth weight: 1.0% lower under the capitation system, P > 0.05
Low birth weight: no difference
Preterm birth: infants have a 1.9 percentage point (36.5% from the base of 5.2% births) Higher probability of preterm birth
Very preterm birth: no difference
Fetal growth: infants born under capitation contracts have 0.8 g per week
Notes  
Risk of bias
Bias Authors' judgement Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias) High risk The allocation is not made by the investigator.
Allocation concealment (selection bias) Unclear risk The allocation is not made by the investigator.
Baseline outcome measurements similar Unclear risk No more information in text
Baseline characteristics similar Low risk The baseline characteristics are not similar, but the results changed only marginally when the author excluded these variables from the model.
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias)
All outcomes Unclear risk No more information in text
Knowledge of the allocated interventions adequately prevented Low risk The outcomes are objective.
Study adequately protected against contamination Low risk Children are automatically assigned to their mother’s GP, and the possibility of reallocation within a municipality without moving occurs only annually.
Selective reporting (reporting bias) Low risk The outcomes mentioned in the methods were reported in the results.
Other bias Low risk No more information in text