Value based clinical commissioning of elective surgical care

"The aim of this report has been to make recommendations for consideration by the NHS Operations Board with regard to effective commissioning of elective surgical procedures."

Right Care Elective Surgery Project: Phase 1 report: Value based clinical commissioning of elective surgical care: emerging views of commissioners and surgeons and production of high value care pathways
M Gray, S Swift, M Suleman, N Beasley, D Hakes, M Qualie, A Mitchell, S Dutch
Right Care
November 2011

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Predicting primary health care costs with measures of morbidity and multimorbidity

"In this paper we investigate the relationship between patients’ primary care costs (consultations, tests, drugs) and their age, gender, deprivation and alternative measures of their morbidity and
multimorbidity."

Keep it simple? Predicting primary health care costs with measures of morbidity and multimorbidity
CHE Research Paper 72
SL Brilleman, H Gravelle, S Hollinghurst, S Purdy, C Salisbury, F Windmeijer
University of York Centre for Health Economics
December 2011

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Social Impact Bonds: a new way to invest in better healthcare

"Prevention is not only better healthcare but better economics. Can social impact bonds fund a shift to prevention?"

Social Impact Bonds: a new way to invest in better healthcare
P Corrigan
Social Finance
September 2011

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Maturity of hospitals’ quality improvement systems is associated with measures of quality and patient safety

"From this data it seems that having a more developed quality improvement system is associated with lower rates of adjusted hospital complications."


Is the maturity of hospitals’ quality improvement systems associated with measures of quality and patient safety?
O Groene, N Mora, A Thompson, M Saez, M Casas, R Sunol
BMC Health Services Research, 2011, 11:344

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Research in ambulatory patient safety

"This report comprises a review of publicly available research and other efforts to address ambulatory patient safety between 2000 and 2010."

Research in ambulatory patient safety 2000-2010: A 10-year review
CY Lorincz, E Drazen, PE Sokol, KV Neerukonda, J Metzger, MC Toepp, L Maul, DC Classen, MK Wynia
American Medical Association
December 2011

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An evaluation of the use of performance measures in health care

The study addressed the following four overarching questions, with subtopics listed below each

question:

1. How are performance measures being used in practice?
2. What factors are influencing measure use?
3. What types of system changes have occurred as a result of measure use?
4. What improvement areas could facilitate the use of standardized endorsed performance measures by various end users? 

An evaluation of the use of performance measures in health care
CL Damberg, ME Sorbero, SL Lovejoy, K Lauderdale, S Wertheimer, A Smith, D Waxman, C Schnyer
National Quality Forum, RAND Corporation
December 2011
 
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Good governance for clinical commissioning groups

"This guide is intended to help the newly formed Clinical Commissioning Groups understand the principles and function of good governance, particularly as these relate to their new statutory role, accountable to parliament combined with their role as a membership organisation, accountable to and for their practices."

Good governance for Clinical Commissioning Groups: an introductory guide
C Imison, B Ashton, K Steward, A Willis
The King's Fund
December 2011

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