Experience led commissioning for end of life care

"The ELC commissioning process was thought to be different from the usual way of doing things because it was seen as more ‘human’ and ‘real’, involved ‘meaningful’ user engagement, contributions from a wide range of stakeholders, and was run as a change management process."

Experience led commissioning for end of life care: final evaluation report
A Cheshire, D Ridge
January 2012

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Paying for "end-of-life" drugs in Australia, Germany, and the United Kingdom

"This issue brief compares U.K., Australian, and German policies on coverage of end-of-life medicines, particularly those that are not curative and offer modest increments in median survival rates."

Paying for "end-of-life" drugs in Australia, Germany, and the United Kingdom: balancing policy, pragmatism, and societal values
Issues in International Health Policy
The Commonwealth Fund
January 2012

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Impact of PubMed search filters on the retrieval of evidence by physicians

"The use of search filters can assist physicians to search more effectively, in less time and with less frustration."


Impact of PubMed search filters on the retrieval of evidence by physicians
SZ Shariff, JM Sontrop, RB Haynes, AV Iansavichus, KA McKibbon, ML Wilczynski, MA Weir, MR Speechley, A Thind, AX Garg
Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2012

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Practice facilitation within primary care settings

"Practice facilitation has a moderately robust effect on evidence based guideline adoption within primary care."

Systematic review and meta-analysis of practice facilitation within primary care settings
NB Baskerville, C Liddy, W Hogg
Annals of Family Medicine, 2012, 10(1):63-74

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Activity based funding versus integrated health care reform

This paper reviews the international evidence about the effectiveness of two initiatives: activity based funding versus integrated health care.

Beyond the hospital walls: activity based funding versus integrated health care reform
M Cohen, M McGregor, I Ivanova, C Kinkaid
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
January 2012

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Public sector, disrupted

"Retail clinics, telemedicine, single organ hospitals, surgical robots, medical tourism and personalized medicine are just a few of the disruptive health care models that hold tremendous promise for breaking traditional price and performance trade-offs in this sector."

Public sector, disrupted: How disruptive innovation can help government achieve more for less
A GovLab Study
Deloitte
2012

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Delivering sustainable cost improvement programmes

This report is aimed at acute, ambulance, mental health and specialist NHS trusts and foundation trusts, and summaries how successful organisations approach the delivery of cost improvement programmes.

Delivering sustainable cost improvement programmes
Audit Commission
January 2012

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