Several articles related to the ICCONIC international collaboration have been published: -International comparison of spending and utilization at the end of life for hip fracture patients. -Within and across country variations in treatment of patients with heart failure and diabetes. -Differences in health care spending and utilization among older frail adults in high-income countries: ICCONIC hip fracture. -Differences in health… Continue reading New papers related to the ICCONIC- Internatonal Collaborative on Costs, Outcomes and Needs in Care
Scientific Publication. ‘International comparison of spending and utilization at the end of life for hip fracture patients’
Carl Rudolf Blankart PhD, Kees van Gool PhD, MEc, Irene Papanicolas PhD, Enrique Bernal-Delgado MD, PhD, Nicholas Bowden MCom, Francisco Estupiñán-Romero MD, MPH, Robin Gauld PhD, Hannah Knight PhD, Olukorede Abiona PhD, Kristen Riley BA, Andrew J. Schoenfeld MD, MSc, Kosta Shatrov MSc, Walter P. Wodchis PhD, Jose F. Figueroa MD, MPH, on behalf of the ICCONIC. International comparison of… Continue reading Scientific Publication. ‘International comparison of spending and utilization at the end of life for hip fracture patients’
Scientific Publication. ‘Within and across country variations in treatment of patients with heart failure and diabetes’
Or Z, Shatrov K, Penneau A, Wodchis W, Abiona O, Blankart CR, Bowden N, Bernal-Delgado E, Knight H, Lorenzoni L, Marino A, Papanicolas I, Riley K, Pellet L, Estupiñán-Romero F, van Gool K, Figueroa JF. Within and across country variations in treatment of patients with heart failure and diabetes. Health Serv Res. 2021 Aug 19. doi: 10.1111/1475-6773.13854. Epub ahead of… Continue reading Scientific Publication. ‘Within and across country variations in treatment of patients with heart failure and diabetes’
Scientific Publication. ‘Differences in health care spending and utilization among older frail adults in high-income countries: ICCONIC hip fracture persona’
Papanicolas I, Figueroa JF, Schoenfeld AJ, Riley K, Abiona O, Arvin M, Atsma F, Bernal-Delgado E, Bowden N, Blankart CR, Deeny S, Estupiñán-Romero F, Gauld R, Haywood P, Janlov N, Knight H, Lorenzoni L, Marino A, Or Z, Penneau A, Shatrov K, Stafford M, van de Galien O, van Gool K, Wodchis W, Jha AK. Differences in health care spending… Continue reading Scientific Publication. ‘Differences in health care spending and utilization among older frail adults in high-income countries: ICCONIC hip fracture persona’
Scientific Publication. ‘Differences in health outcomes for high-need high-cost patients across high-income countries’
Papanicolas I, Riley K, Abiona O, Arvin M, Atsma F, Bernal-Delgado E, Bowden N, Blankart CR, Deeny S, Estupiñán-Romero F, Gauld R, Haywood P, Janlov N, Knight H, Lorenzoni L, Marino A, Or Z, Penneau A, Schoenfeld AJ, Shatrov K, Stafford M, van de Galien O, van Gool K, Wodchis W, Jha AK, Figueroa JF. Differences in health outcomes for… Continue reading Scientific Publication. ‘Differences in health outcomes for high-need high-cost patients across high-income countries’
Scientific Publication. ‘International comparison of health spending and utilization among people with complex multimorbidity’
Figueroa JF, Papanicolas I, Riley K, Abiona O, Arvin M, Atsma F, Bernal-Delgado E, Bowden N, Blankart CR, Deeny S, Estupiñán-Romero F, Gauld R, Haywood P, Janlov N, Knight H, Lorenzoni L, Marino A, Or Z, Penneau A, Shatrov K, van de Galien O, van Gool K, Wodchis W, Jha AK. International comparison of health spending and utilization among people… Continue reading Scientific Publication. ‘International comparison of health spending and utilization among people with complex multimorbidity’
Scientific Publication. ‘Acknowledging the role of patient heterogeneity in hospital outcome reporting: Mortality after acute myocardial infarction in five European countries’
Micaela Comendeiro-Maaløe, Francisco Estupiñán-Romero, Lau Caspar Thygesen,Céu Mateus, Juan Merlo, Enrique Bernal-Delgado, on behalf of the ECHO consortium. Acknowledging the role of patient heterogeneity in hospital outcome reporting: Mortality after acute myocardial infarction in five European countries. PLoS ONE 15(2): e0228425. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0228425 Link
Information systems that continuously monitor and drive better care
The European Collaboration for Healthcare Optimization (ECHO Project) and the OECD Health Care Quality Indicators Project exemplify a trend to develop such data quality schemes globally. In the report ‘Delivering quality health services. A global imperative for universal health coverage’ https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/272465/9789241513906-eng.pdf
The Echo Tool is on The EU Health Innovation Marketplace, UTILE.
The ECHO Tool: a web-based system comparing healthcare performance at geographical level. The ECHO project aims to assess variations in healthcare performance and provide evidence to inform policy decision with the assistance of the created software ECHO. The EU Health Innovation Marketplace is an online community https://questionnaires.health-breakthrough.eu/utile-web/ where Innovation Providers and Innovation Developers can meet each other. Through an inventory… Continue reading The Echo Tool is on The EU Health Innovation Marketplace, UTILE.
The Value of Health: Improving Outcomes Final Report
The ECHO Project participates in this report with the chapter ‘C-SECTIONS IN LOW-RISK DELIVERIES: IDENTIFYING LOW VALUE CARE’ by Enrique Bernal-Delgado and Sandra García-Armesto on behalf of the ECHO consortium The report provides a multistakeholder perspective on value in health systems and the use of health outcome measures to enhance value. The final report launched at he European Parliament on… Continue reading The Value of Health: Improving Outcomes Final Report