Publications: Health and Healthcare
2012
DISMEVAL Developing and validating disease management evaluation methods for European healthcare systems: Final report — 2012
The report presents the overall findings of work carried out within the DISMEVAL project. It reviews approaches to chronic care in Europe and reports on methods and metrics for the evaluation of disease management interventions in six countries.
Evaluating chronic disease management: Recommendations for funders and users — 2012
This report outlines choices, options and trade-offs to policymakers, programme operators and researchers interested in the evaluation of chronic disease management. It is based on analyses undertaken within the DISMEVAL project.
National Evaluation of the DH Integrated Care Pilots — 2012
This report is the result of an evaluation of the 16 DH integrated care pilots (ICPs).
National Evaluation of the DH Integrated Care Pilots: Summary — 2012
This report is a summary of the result of an evaluation of the 16 DH integrated care pilots (ICPs).
National Evaluation of the DH Integrated Care Pilots: Appendices — 2012
This report contains appendices to the result of an evaluation of the 16 DH integrated care pilots (ICPs).
Postmenopausal osteoporosis management: A review of the evidence to inform the development of quality indicators — 2012
The report work aims to inform the development of quality indicators for postmenopausal osteoporosis management in Europe.
Preventing emergency readmissions to hospital: A scoping review — 2012
The study reports on the evidence and potential for use of 'emergency readmissions within 28 days of discharge from hospital' as an indicator within the NHS Outcomes Framework, drawing on a rapid review of systematic reviews.
Sustainable Development in the National Health Service (NHS): The views and values of NHS leaders — 2012
A first systematic picture of United Kingdom National Health Service (NHS) leaders' views of priorities and approaches regarding sustainable development (SD). Survey and interview responses are drawn on to show the importance of SD and ways forward.
Use of outcome metrics to measure quality in education and training of healthcare professionals: A scoping review of international experiences — 2012
This brief report is designed as an exploratory review, with a focus on the use of quality indicators to assess and monitor the delivery of healthcare education and training in international settings.
2011
Assessing the impacts of Revising the Tobacco Products Directive: Study to support a DG SANCO Impact Assessment — 2011
In order to inform the European Commission's formal Impact Assessment for a revision to the Tobacco Products Directive, this study provides an overview of evidence for tobacco product regulation and an analysis of health and economic implications.
Best-worst Scaling Vs. Discrete Choice Experiments: An Empirical Comparison Using Social Care Data — 2011
This paper presents empirical findings from the comparison between two principal preference elicitation techniques: discrete choice experiments and profile-based best-worst scaling. Bes-worst scaling involves less cognitive burden for respondents and provides more information than traditional "pick-one" tasks asked in discrete choice experiments.
Bibliometric analysis of highly cited publications of health research in England, 2002-2006 — 2011
Aims to support the selection of National Institute of Health Research Biomedical Research Centres and Biomedical Research Units by informing the decision making of both potential candidates and the NIHR selection panel.
Comparing the Costs of Alternative Models of End-of-Life Care — 2011
The authors estimated at pounds 1.8 billion the cost to the taxpayer of care for the 127,000 patients dying from cancer in 2006. The equivalent cost for the 30,000 people dying from organ failure was pounds 553 million. Resources of pounds 16 to pounds 171 million could be released for cancer.
Complex trauma research in the UK: A rapid review of the funding landscape — 2011
This documented briefing presents the results of a rapid review of the funding landscape for complex trauma research in the UK. Recommendations are made about how to strengthen this niche and orphan area of research.
Delivering the aims of the CLAHRCs: evaluating CLAHRCs' strategies and contributions: Interim report: Phase I — 2011
This report catalogues the first phase of an evaluation of the nine Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRCs) established in October 2008 by the UK National Institute for Health Research.
Disease management evaluation: A comprehensive review of current state of the art — 2011
This report reviews academic and grey literature on disease management evaluation methods and metrics to identify key conceptual, methodological and analytical challenges and possible solutions to assess effects of such complex health interventions.
Healthcare Services: Strategy, Direction and Delivery — 2011
Examines the health policy and practice context for healthcare management and the specific challenges of managing healthcare organizations. The authors use four countries, Canada, England, Germany, and the United States, as a means to illustrate typical healthcare systems features and the most fundamental directions of change in the governance of healthcare provision.
Healthcare Technology Co-operatives: Filling a niche in the English R&D landscape — 2011
This evaluation of the pilot Health Technology Cooperatives (HTCs), part of England's research infrastructure, explored how the HTCs fit into the health innovation landscape and recommended how best to support core HTC activities in the future.
Health Innovation Transfer from South to North — 2011
This report presents findings from a study of health innovations transferred from South to North. This briefing examines technologies developed for developing country settings, which may have an application in the UK National Health Service.
How health systems make available information on service providers: Experience in seven countries — 2011
This report reviews information systems that report on the quality or performance of providers of healthcare in seven countries to inform the use and further development of quality information systems in the English NHS.
The Impact of Patient Choice of Provider on Equity: Analysis of a Patient Survey — 2011
More educated, affluent patients were no more likely to be offered a choice than other population groups, but there does appear to be a social gradient in who chose to travel beyond the local area for treatment. If these results were replicated across England, there is at least the potential risk that when local hospitals are failing, patient choice could result in inequitable access to high quality care, rather than enhancing equity as the policy's architects had hoped.
Informing the development of a resource allocation framework in the German healthcare system — 2011
The report aims to inform the development of the quality component of the proposed national resource allocation framework in the German statutory healthcare system.
Map the Gap: a critical review of the literature on gambling-related harm — 2011
This report 'maps the gaps' in the current evidence base relating to harmful gambling. It describes the quantity and quality of existing research in this field, and highlights areas in which evidence and knowledge are sparse or lacking.
Measuring NHS performance 1990–2009 using amenable mortality: Interpret with Care — 2011
The new performance framework for the NHS in England will assess how well health services are preventing people from dying prematurely, based on the concept of mortality amenable to healthcare. This article examines how different parts of the UK would be assessed had this measure been in use over the past two decades—from 1990 to 2009.
Preliminary assessment of economic impacts of alcohol pricing policy options in the UK — 2011
This study provides evidence on potential economic impact of policies designed to increase the price of alcoholic drinks on consumers, producers and retailers in the UK. Policy-makers used recommendations to implement a new pricing policy.
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