Soren Kristensen, BSc MSc PhD

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• 2025

  Investigating the spillover mechanisms of payment incentives on the outcomes for non-targeted patients

  Britteon, P., Kristensen, S. R., Lau, Y.-S., McDonald, R. & Sutton, M., 28 Feb 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: Health Economics .

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Research Design 100%
  • Health Service 100%
  • Difference in Differences 100%
  • English 100%
  • Spillover Effect 100%
• 2023

  A comparative study of payment for performance design, health system effects and outcomes in Mozambique and Zimbabwe

  Borghi, J., Kadungure, A., Nhassengo, P., Loewenson, R., Anselmi, L., Fichera, E., Kovacs, R., Gwati, G., Ohrnberger, J., Kristensen, S. R., Singh, N., Chicumbe, S., Midzi, N. & Brown, G., 20 Sept 2023, (Accepted/In press) In: International Journal of Public Sector Management.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Service Delivery 100%
  • Assessment System 100%
  • Verification System 100%
  • Case Study Method 100%
  • Document Review 100%
  14 Downloads (Pure)

• Spillover effects of financial incentives for providers onto non-targeted patients: Daycase surgery in English hospitals

  Britteon, P., Kristensen, S. R., Lau, Y.-S., McDonald, R. & Sutton, M., 16 May 2023, In: Health Economics, Policy and Law. 18, 3, p. 289-304 16 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Treated Patient 100%
  • Financial Incentive 100%
  • Spillover Effect 100%
  • Incentives 100%
  • Incentive 100%
• 2022

  Framework for identification and measurement of spillover effects in policy implementation: Intended Non-intended TargEted Non-Targeted Spillovers (INTENTS)

  Francetic, I., Meacock, R., Elliott, J., Kristensen, S. R., Britteon, P., Lugo-Palacios, D. G., Wilson, P. & Sutton, M., 14 Mar 2022, In: Implementation science communications. 3, 30, p. 1-15 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Spillover Effect 100%
  • Scoping Review 27%

• Physicians under Pressure: Evidence from Antibiotics Prescribing in England

  Allen, T., Gyrd-Hansen, D., Kristensen, S. R., Oxholm, A. S., Pedersen, L. B. & Pezzino, M., 12 Jan 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Medical Decision Making.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Anti-biotics 100%
  • Broad-Spectrum Antibiotic 100%
  • Health Care Cost 75%
  • Decision Making 25%
  • Antibiotic Resistance 25%

• Who is paid in pay-for-performance? Inequalities in the distribution of financial bonuses amongst health centres in Zimbabwe

  Kovacs, R., Brown, G. W., Kadungure, A., Kristensen, S. R., Gwati, G., Anselmi, L., Midzi, N. & Borghi, J., 29 Jan 2022, In: Health policy and planning.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Medical Centres 100%
  • Standard Deviation 100%
  • Personnel 100%
  • Measure of Dispersion 100%
  • Leave 33%
• 2021

  The effect of payment method and multimorbidity on health and healthcare utilisation

  Hayes, H., Stokes, J., Kristensen, S. R. & Sutton, M., 5 May 2021, In: Journal of Health Organization and Management. 35, 3, p. 382-405 24 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Survey Analysis 100%
  • Incentive 100%
  • Research Priorities 100%
  • Rhetoric 100%
  • Survey Data 100%
  65 Downloads (Pure)
• 2020

  Pay for Performance: A Reflection on How a Global Perspective Could Enhance Policy and Research

  Anselmi, L., Borghi, J., Brown, G., Fichera, E., Hanson, K., Kadungure, A., Kovacs, R., Kristensen, S. R., Singh, N. S. & Sutton, M., 24 Feb 2020, (E-pub ahead of print) In: International Journal of Health Policy and Management.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Knowledge Exchange 100%
  • Health Care 100%
  • Research Question 100%
  • Healthcare Provider 100%
  • Financial Incentive 100%
• 2019

  Does pooling health & social care budgets reduce hospital use and lower costs?

  Stokes, J., Lau, Y.-S., Kristensen, S. R. & Sutton, M., 23 May 2019, In: Social Science & Medicine. 232, p. 382-388 7 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

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  • Health Care Cost 100%
  • Social Health 100%
  • Secondary Care 50%
  • Multiple Chronic Conditions 50%
  • Chronic Disease 25%
  64 Downloads (Pure)

• Pay for performance for specialised care in England: Strengths and weaknesses

  Feng, Y., Kristensen, S. R., Lorgelly, P., Meacock, R., Rodes Sanches, M., Siciliani, L. & Sutton, M., 17 Jul 2019, In: Health Policy.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Incentives 100%
• 2018

  After Astana: building the economic case for increased investment in primary health care

  Kluge, H., Kelley, E., Swaminathan, S., Yamamoto, N., Fisseha, S., Theodorakis, P. N., Kristensen, S., Anderson, M. & Mossialos, E., 17 Nov 2018, In: The Lancet. 392, 10160, p. 2147-2152 6 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Commentary/debate › peer-review

  • Primary Health Care 100%
  • Health Care 100%
  • Wellbeing 100%
  • World Health Organization 33%
  • Independent Practice Association 33%

• Towards incentivising integration: A typology of payments for integrated care

  Stokes, J., Struckmann, V., Kristensen, S. R., Fuchs, S., van Ginneken, E., Tsiachristas, A., Rutten-van Mölken, M. & Sutton, M., 11 Jul 2018, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Health Policy.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Incentive 100%
  • Diseases 50%
  • Patient Participation 50%
  • Comorbidity 50%

• Uncertainty about the Effort-Performance Relationship in Threshold-Based Payment Schemes

  Oxholm, A. S., Kristensen, S. R. & Sutton, M., Nov 2018, In: Journal of Health Economics. 62, p. 69-83 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Incentive 100%
  • Payment Scheme 100%
  • Incentives 100%
  • General Practitioner 50%
  104 Downloads (Pure)

• Understanding for whom, why and in what circumstances payment for performance works in low and middle income countries: protocol for a realist review

  Borghi, J., Singh, N. S., Brown, G., Anselmi, L. & Kristensen, S. R., 2018, In: BMJ Global Health.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Work Performance 100%
  • Initial Program 100%
  • Knowledge Gap 100%
  • Sustainable Service 100%
  • Health Care Delivery 100%
• 2017

  Arrival by ambulance explains variation in mortality by time of admission: retrospective study of admissions to hospital following emergency department attendance in England

  Anselmi, L., Meacock, R., Kristensen, S. R., Doran, T. & Sutton, M., 2017, In: BMJ Quality and Safety. 26, p. 613-621

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Emergency Ward 100%
  • Disease 100%
  • Hospital Mortality 100%
  • Diseases 100%
  • UK 100%

• Does the impact of case management vary in different subgroups of multimorbidity? Secondary analysis of a quasi-experiment

  Stokes, J., Kristensen, S. R., Checkland, K., Cheraghi-Sohi, S. & Bower, P., 3 Aug 2017, In: BMC Health Services Research. 17, 1, p. 521

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Multiple Chronic Conditions 100%
  • Case Management 100%
  • Secondary Analysis 100%
  • Comorbidity 100%
  • Care Management 100%
  168 Downloads (Pure)

• Financial Penalties for Performance in Health Care

  Kristensen, S. R., Feb 2017, In: Health Economics. 26, 2, p. 143–148

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review

  Open Access

  File
  355 Downloads (Pure)

• Higher mortality rates amongst emergency patients admitted to hospital at weekends reflect a lower probability of admission

  Meacock, R., Anselmi, L., Kristensen, S., Doran, T. & Sutton, M., 2017, In: Journal of Health Services Research and Policy. 22, 1, p. 12-19

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Mortality Rate 100%
  • Diseases 25%
  • Observational Study 25%
  • Triage 25%

• Using survival analysis to improve estimates of life year gains in policy evaluations

  Meacock, R., Sutton, M., Kristensen, S. R. & Harrison, M., 1 May 2017, In: Medical Decision Making. 37, 4, p. 415-426

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Cost-Effectiveness Analysis 100%
  • Difference-In-Differences 100%
  • Duration Analysis 100%
  • Life Expectancy 100%
  • Health Service 100%
  119 Downloads (Pure)

• Variations in mortality across the week following emergency admission to hospital: linked retrospective observational analyses of hospital episode data in England, 2004/05 to 2013/14

  Han, L., Meacock, R., Anselmi, L., Kristensen, S. R., Sutton, M., Doran, T., Clough, S. & Power, M., 22 Nov 2017, In: Health Services and Delivery Research. 5, 30

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Diseases 100%
  • UK 100%
  • Mortality Rate 100%
  • Working Hours 66%
  • Health Care Cost 66%
  137 Downloads (Pure)
• 2016

  Associations between Extending Access to Primary Care and Emergency Department Visits: A Difference-In-Differences Analysis

  Whittaker, W., Anselmi, L., Kristensen, S. R., Lau, Y.-S., Bailey, S., Bower, P., Checkland, K., Elvey, R., Rothwell, K., Stokes, J. & Hodgson, D., 6 Sept 2016, In: PL o S Medicine. 13, 9, p. e1002113

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Health Care Cost 100%
  • Health Service 40%
  • Base 20%
  • Health Outcomes 20%
  • National Health Service 20%

• Effectiveness of multidisciplinary team case management: difference-in-differences analysis

  Stokes, J., Kristensen, S., Checkland, K. & Bower, P., 18 Apr 2016, In: BMJ Open. 6, 4, e010468.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Case Management 100%
  • Effect Size 100%
  • Difference in Differences 100%
  • Secondary Health Care 66%
  • Hospital Readmission 66%

• Integrated care: theory to practice

  Stokes, J., Checkland, K. & Kristensen, S., 1 Oct 2016, In: Journal of health services research & policy. 21, 4, p. 282-285 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

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  • Case Management 100%
  • High-Risk Population 33%
  • UK 33%
  • Prevalence 33%
  • High Risk Population 33%
  341 Downloads (Pure)

• Optimal price-setting in pay for performance schemes in health care

  Kristensen, S. R., Sicliani, L. & Sutton, M., Mar 2016, In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. 123, p. 57–77

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Incentives 100%
  • Opportunity Cost 50%

• Who to pay for performance? The choice of organisational level for hospital performance incentives

  Kristensen, S. R., Lauridsen, J. T. & Bech, M., May 2016, In: The European Journal of Health Economics. 17, 4, p. 435–442

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• 2015

  A qualitative and quantitative evaluation of the Advancing Quality pay-for-performance programme in the NHS North West

  McDonald, R., Boaden, R., Roland, M., Kristensen, S. R., Meacock, R., Lau, Y.-S., Mason, T., Turner, A. & Sutton, M., May 2015, In: Health Services Delivery Research. 3, 23

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Difference-In-Differences 100%
  • Incentives 100%
  • England 100%
  • Spillover Effect 50%
  • Cost-Effectiveness Analysis 50%

• A roadmap for comparing readmission policies with application to Denmark, England, Germany and the United States

  Kristensen, S. R., Bech, M. & Quentin, W., 2015, In: Health Policy. 119, 3, p. 264-273 9 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Incentivising effort in governance of public hospitals: development of a delegation-based alternative to activity-based remuneration

  Søgaard, R., Kristensen, S. R. & Bech, M., Aug 2015, In: Health Policy. 119, 8, 1076–1085.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• NHS Greater Manchester Primary Care Demonstrator Evaluation

  Anselmi, L., Bailey, S., Bower, P., Checkland, K., Elvey, R., Hodgson, D., Kristensen, S. R., Mcbride, A., Lau, Y.-S., Parkin, S., Rothwell, K., Stokes, J. & Whittaker, W., Jun 2015, Manchester, UK: Collaboration for Leadsership in Applied Health and Care Research, Greater Manchester. 210 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report

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• 2014

  Does pay for performance in hospitals save lives?

  Roland, M., Sutton, M., Kristensen, S. R., Meacock, R., Turner, A., Boaden, R. & McDonald, R., 2014, 1 p.

  Research output: Other contribution › peer-review

• Evaluation of the advancing quality pay for performance programme in the NHS North West

  Mcdonald, R., Boaden, R., Roland, M., Kristensen, S. R., Meacock, R., Lau, Y.-S., Mason, T., Turner, A. & Sutton, M., 2014, In: Health Services and Delivery Research. n/a

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Long-Term Effect of Hospital Pay for Performance on Mortality in England

  Kristensen, S. R., Meacock, R., Turner, A., Boaden, R., McDonald, R., Roland, M. & Sutton, M., 7 Aug 2014, In: New England Journal Of Medicine. 371, 6, p. 540-548 9 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Incentive 100%
  • UK 100%
  • Incentives 100%
  • Confidence Interval 100%
  • Hospital Mortality 100%

• Optimal Price-Setting in Pay for Performance Schemes in Health Care

  Kristensen, S. R., Siciliani, L. & Sutton, M., Mar 2014, (CEPR Discussion Papers; no. 9915).

  Research output: Preprint/Working paper › Working paper

• Paying for improvements in quality: recent experience in the NHS in England

  Meacock, R., Kristensen, S. & Sutton, M., May 2014, In: Nordic Journal of Health Economics. p. 239-255 16 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Incentives 100%
  • Spillover Effect 50%
  432 Downloads (Pure)

• The cost-effectiveness of using financial incentives to improve provider quality: A framework and application

  Meacock, R., Kristensen, S. R. & Sutton, M., 1 Jan 2014, In: Health Economics . 23, 1, p. 1-13 12 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Incentive 100%
  • Incentives 100%
  • Health Service 100%
  • Health Care 50%
  • Cost Saving 50%
• 2013

  Evaluation of the Commissioning for Quality and Innovation Framework Final Report.

  Kristensen, S., Brown, S., McDonald, R., Kristensen, S. R., Zaidi, S., Sutton, M., Todd, S., Konteh, F. & Brown, S., 2013, No publisher name.

  Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report

• Is the quality of hospital care price sensitive? Regression kink estimates from a volume dependent price setting scheme

  Kristensen, S. R., Fe, E., Bech, M. & Mainz, J., 2013, Odense, (Health Economics Papers; no. 4).

  Research output: Preprint/Working paper › Working paper

• Local targets for national objectives – Lessons from bottom-up design of Pay-for-Performance schemes

  Kristensen, S. R., 2013, host publication.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

• Price setting in pay for performance schemes: Theory and practice

  Kristensen, S. R., Siciliani, L. & Sutton, M., 2013, host publication.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

• Should pay-for-performance schemes be locally designed? Evidence from the Commissioning for Quality and Innovation (CQUIN) Framework

  Kristensen, S. R., McDonald, R. & Sutton, M., Oct 2013, In: Journal of Health Services Research and Policy. 18, 2 Suppl, p. 38-49 12 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Clinical Staff 100%
  • Development Process 100%
  • Local Development 100%
  • Case Study 100%
  • Personnel 100%

• Should pay-for-performance schemes be locally-designed? Evidence from the Commissioning for Quality and innovation (CQUIN) Framework in England.

  Kristensen, S. R., McDonald, R. & Sutton, M., 2013, In: Journal of health services research & policy. Oct; 18 (2 Suppl), p. 38-49 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Who to pay for performance? The choice of organisational level for hospital performance incentives

  Kristensen, S. R., Bech, M. & Lauridsen, J. T., 2013, Odense, (Health Economics Papers; no. 5).

  Research output: Preprint/Working paper › Working paper
• 2012

  Performance Based Provider Reimbursement and Supply Side Incentives for Quality in Hospital Care

  Kristensen, S. R., 2012, University of Southern Denmark.

  Research output: Thesis › Doctoral Thesis