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
Bridge-Health Report
Bridge-Health Final Report: ‘Building a platform for healthcare administrative data for the assessment of health system performance’. Autors: Bernal-Delgado E, Estupiñán-Romero F, Launa-Garcés R, and Martínez-Lizaga N on behalf of BRIDGE Health WP#10 partners. Access to the BRIDGE-HEALTH Final Report.pdf Information about WP#10 partners: www.bridge-health.eu/content/platform-administrative-data-health-care WP 10 ‘Building a Platform for administrative data on healthcare’. More information about this WP: www.bridge-health.eu/content/platform-administrative-data-health-care
Scientific Publication. ‘Hospital Surgical Volumes and Mortality after Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting: Using International Comparisons to Determine a Safe Threshold’
Nils Gutacker, Karen Bloor, Richard Cookson, Chris P. Gale, Alan Maynard, Domenico Pagano, José Pomar, Enrique Bernal-Delgado and as part of the ECHO collaboration. Hospital Surgical Volumes and Mortality after Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting: Using International Comparisons to Determine a Safe Threshold. Health Service Research Version of Record online: MAY 2016 DOI: 10.1111/1475-6773.12508 Link
E.Bernal-Delgado: ‘Unwarranted variations in health care: magnitude, underlying causes and potential remedies’in The 20th National Health Economics Conference 2018 in Oslo
‘Unwarranted variations in health care: magnitude, underlying causes and potential remedies’ by E.Bernal-Delgado in The 20th National Health Economics Conference 2018 in Oslo Presentation by E.Bernal-Delgado: https://www.slideshare.net/Atlasvpm/oslo-bernal-delgado-20180529 More info: https://www.med.uio.no/helsam/forskning/nettverk/hero/arrangementer/2018/helseokonomikonferansen.html
Atlas Num.3 on Coronary revascularisation
Atlas Num.3 on Coronary revascularisation Mortality and morbidity from cardiovascular disease are considered a public health issue. In fact, coronary ischaemic disease is one of the leading causes of death in Europe. The study of systematic variation on its surgical management, and associated outcomes, offers a critical view on how healthcare organizations provide care to patients. CV Denmark CV… Continue reading Atlas Num.3 on Coronary revascularisation
Atlas Num.2 on Potentially Avoidable Hospitalisations (PAH)
Atlas Num.2 on Potentially Avoidable Hospitalisations (PAH) The study of systematic variations in Potentially Avoidable Hospitalizations (PAH) offers a critical view on how healthcare organizations provide care to patients with chronic conditions. In particular, it signals how effectively they are managed in the ambulatory setting. Access Atlas reports by country, click on the links below PAH Denmark PAH England PAH… Continue reading Atlas Num.2 on Potentially Avoidable Hospitalisations (PAH)
Atlas Num.1 on Lower Value Care (LVC)
Atlas Num.1 on Lower Value Care (LVC) Health Systems bear substantial opportunity costs by using interventions that are deemed lower-value. Quantifying the utilisation of this type of care and its systematic variation across policy-relevant geographical units offers insight at a glance into the local potential for enhancing efficiency (i.e., value-based provision of care). LVC Denmark LVC England … Continue reading Atlas Num.1 on Lower Value Care (LVC)