Prioritising health service innovation investments using public preferences

"The findings provide useful information on the public's valuation and acceptability of potential health service innovations."

Prioritising health service innovation investments using public preferences: a discrete choice experiment
S Erdem, C Thompson
BMC Health Services Research, 2014, 14:360

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Self-management support interventions to reduce health care utilisation

"Self-management support interventions can reduce health service utilization without compromising patient health outcomes, although effects were generally small, and the evidence was strongest in respiratory and cardiovascular disorders."

Self-management support interventions to reduce health care utilisation without compromising outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis
M Panagioti, et al.
BMC Health Services Research 2014, 14:356

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Applying a national quality registry for quality improvement in stroke care

"While quality registries are assumed to support adherence to evidence-based guidelines around the world, this study proposes that a NQR can facilitate improvement of care but neither the registry itself nor the reporting of data initiates quality improvement."

Facilitators and barriers to applying a national quality registry for quality improvement in stroke care
AC Eldh, et al.
BMC Health Services Research, 2014, 14:354

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Spreading innovation: AHSNs step up to the challenge

"The NHS has embarked on a major initiative to drive systematic adoption and diffusion of innovation through the creation of AHSNs (Academic Health Science Networks)."

Spreading innovation: AHSNs step up to the challenge
A Bull, A Darlington, A Heitmueller
Health Service Journal, 13 August 2014

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Spend and outcome tool (SPOT): local authorities

"The Spend and outcome tool (SPOT) gives local authorities in England an overview of spend and outcomes across key areas of business and for public health and its sub-programmes." Access the tool here.

Guidance on priority setting in health care (GPS-Health)

"This Guidance for Priority Setting in Health Care (GPS-Health), initiated by the World Health Organization, offers a comprehensive map of equity criteria that are relevant to health care priority setting and should be considered in addition to cost-effectiveness analysis."

Guidance on priority setting in health care (GPS-Health): the inclusion of equity criteria not captured by cost-effectiveness analysis
OF Norheim, et al.
Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation, 2014, 12:18

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Costs and effects after the implementation of disease management programs

"After one year we have found indications of improvements in level of integrated care for CVR (cardiovascular risk) patients and lifestyle indicators for all diseases, but in none of the diseases we have found indications of cost savings due to DMPs (disease management programs)."

Changes in costs and effects after the implementation of disease management programs in the Netherlands: variability and determinants
A Tsiachristas, J Murray Cramm, AP Nieboer, MPMH Rutten-van Molken
Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation, 2014, 12:17

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