Regulating the input – Health Technology Assessment i Improving healthcare quality in Europe: Characteristics, effectiveness and implementation of different strategies

Finn Børlum Kristensen; Camilla Palmhøj Nielsen; Dimitra Panteli

Regulating the input – Health Technology Assessment er kapitel 6 i bogen Improving healthcare quality in Europe: Characteristics, effectiveness and implementation of different strategies.

Quality improvement initiatives take many forms, from the creation of standards for health professionals, health technologies and health facilities, to audit and feedback, and from fostering a patient safety culture to public reporting and paying for quality. For policy-  makers who struggle to decide which initiatives to prioritise for investment, understanding the potential of different quality strategies in their unique settings is key.

This volume, developed by the Observatory together with OECD, provides an overall conceptual framework for understanding and applying strategies aimed at improving quality of care. Crucially, it summarizes available evidence on different quality strategies and provides  recommendations for their implementation. This book is intended to help policy-makers to understand concepts of quality and to support them to evaluate single strategies and  combinations of strategies.

Quality of care is a political priority and an important contributor to population health. This book acknowledges that quality of care is a broadly defined concept, and that it is often  unclear how quality improvement strategies fit within a health system, and what their  particular contribution can be. This volume elucidates the concepts behind multiple elements of quality in healthcare policy (including definitions of quality, its dimensions, related activities, and targets), quality measurement and governance and situates it all in the wider context of health systems research. By so doing, this book is designed to help policy-makers prioritize and align different quality initiatives and to achieve a comprehensive approach to quality  improvement.

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Udgivelsesform Bidrag til bøger/antologier
År 2019
Udgiver European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies
ISBN/ISSN 978-92-890-5175-0
Længde 419 sider