Public health
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Coronary heart disease (CHD) is a common reason for emergency admission in England. The objective of this study was to determine the association between general practice, population and hospital characteristics, including quality and outcomes framework (QOF) scores, with emergency admissions for angina, which is an ambulatory-care-sensitive condition, and myocardial infarction (MI). ⋯ There is no clinically significant relationship between better quality of primary care, as measured by disease-specific QOF measures, and fewer CHD admissions. Deprivation, CHD prevalence and smoking are major risk factors for emergency admission for CHD.