[EQ] Health Research Evaluation Frameworks -An International Comparison

Health Research Evaluation Frameworks -An International Comparison

 

By: Philipp-Bastian Brutscher, Steven Wooding, Jonathan Grant

Prepared for the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and as part of RAND Europe’s Health Research System Observatory series

Funded by the UK Department of Health

 

Available online as PDF file [74p.] at: http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/2008/RAND_TR629.pdf

 

Summary PDF [6p.] at: http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/2008/RAND_TR629.sum.pdf

 

“….This report is based upon, and summarizes findings from, eight health research evaluation frameworks in use in the United Kingdom (UK), Sweden, the United States (2), the Netherlands, Australia, the European Union, Canada, and elsewhere. The report was jointly supported by the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (CAHS) and the International Observatory on Health Research Systems. The Observatory is funded by the Health Research and Development Policy Research Unit of the UK Department of Health. The CAHS has convened an Assessment Panel to consider what research evaluation framework would be most appropriate in a Canadian context and to look at what modifications might be needed to such a framework to adapt it for the Canadian context.

 

The objective of the present study is to inform the work of the panel by providing an overview and comparison of international research evaluation frameworks. The report is divided into two parts:

-  In the first part, five key elements of research evaluation (emerging from the frameworks studied) are presented and discussed:
   evaluation objectives, outcome measures, levels of aggregation, timing, and evaluation methods. In addition, correlation
   diagrammes are used to explore the relation between these elements.

 

 - The second part presents case studies on the eight evaluation frameworks studied. …”

 

Content

Introduction

Rationale for R&D support by governments

Rationale for R&D evaluation

Background to the study

Evaluation frameworks

Objectives

Output/outcome/impact measures

Categories of outputs, outcomes and impacts

Level of Aggregation

Timing

How to measure

Conclusion

A note on Additionality

Case Studies

 

 

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[EQ] Sweden's strategy report for social protection and social inclusion

Sweden’s strategy report for social protection and social inclusion

2008 – 2010

 

Ministry of Health and Social Affairs, October 2008

 

Available online as PDF file: http://www.sweden.gov.se/content/1/c6/11/42/69/1009c964.pdf

 

“….Every three years the Member States report to the EU Commission on which measures they have taken and plan to take to help achieve the common EU objectives for social security and social inclusion. On 30 September 2008 the Government submitted Sweden's strategy report on social security and social inclusion 2008-2010 to the EU Commission.

 

The report contains:

National action plan for social inclusion, 2008-2010
National strategy for pensions
National strategy for health and medical care, and care of the elderly…”

 

 

Contents

1. Common strategy for social protection and social inclusion

1.1 Evaluation of the social situation

1.2 Strategic approach and overarching objectives

1.3 Overarching message

2. National action plan for social inclusion 2008–2010

2.1 Follow-up of national action plan 2006–2008

2.2 Prioritised objectives for the period 2008–2010

2.3 Increasing the possibility of social inclusion for the elderly

2.4 Reducing exclusion among young people

2.5 Reducing absence from work due to ill-health

2.6 Continuing to strengthen groups in particularly vulnerable situations

2.7 Better governance

 

3. National strategy for pensions

3.1 Swedish pensions

3.2 Reasonable and sustainable pensions in a modernised system

3.3 Reasonable pensions

3.4 Financial sustainability

3.5 Current development

4. National strategy for health care and long-term care

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Health care

4.3 Long-term care

Annex 1. Health care – complementary background

Annex 2. Indicators relating to social inclusion, health care and long-term care

Annex 3. Contribution from the Network Against Social Exclusion

 

 

 

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[EQ] High Performing Healthcare Systems: Delivering Quality By Design

High Performing Healthcare Systems: Delivering Quality By Design

G. Ross Baker, Anu MacIntosh-Murray, Christina Porcellato, Lynn Dionne, Kim Stelmacovich and Karen Born

Toronto: Longwoods Publishing, 2008

 

An examination of leadership strategies, organizational processes and investments made to create and sustain improvement in healthcare

 

Available online as PDF file [293p.] at http://www.longwoods.com/articles/images/QBD_Oct08.pdf

 

“….Improvements in science, technology and care have offered the promise of better healthcare and improved health. But many healthcare systems have been unable to cope with the acceleration of knowledge growth, thus creating a gap between the care that is possible and the care that is delivered. Many commentators bemoan the inconsistent quality and increasing costs of current healthcare and fear the future burdens posed by aging populations and the costs of adopting emerging therapeutic and diagnostic innovations. Providing consistent, high-quality care is a challenge even in the countries that spend the most on healthcare (Institute of Medicine 2001).

 

The increasing complexity of healthcare systems in industrialized countries has further exacerbated the quality chasm, thereby leading to a healthcare delivery system that is complicated, inefficient and uncoordinated.

 

Improving the safety and quality of care is an increasingly important objective in all health systems. Advances in measurement have helped to highlight variations between organizations, and across regional and national health systems…”

 

Table of Contents

Foreword Adalsteinn Brown Chapter 1: Introduction. Learning from High-Performing Systems: Quality by Design International Case Studies Chapter 2: Birmingham East and North Primary Care Trust and Heart of England Foundation Trust - Birmingham, UK Commentary: Birmingham East and North Primary Care Trust and Heart of England Foundation Trust Murray Martin Chapter 3: Veterans Affairs New England Healthcare System (Veterans Integrated Service Network 1) - New England, US Commentary: Veterans Affairs New England Healthcare System (VISN 1) David Levine Chapter 4: Jönköping County Council - Småland, Sweden Commentary: Jönköping County Council Maura Davies Chapter 5: Intermountain Healthcare - Salt Lake City, Utah, US Commentary: Intermountain Healthcare Rick Roger Chapter 6: Henry Ford Health System - Detroit, Michigan, US Commentary: Henry Ford Health System Jack Kitts Canadian Case Studies Chapter 7: Calgary Health Region - Calgary, Alberta Chapter 8: Trillium Health Centre - Mississauga, Ontario Afterword Steven Lewis Selected Additional Resources

 

 

 

 

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