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10 05, 2019

Paper of the Week: 10th May 2019: Better payment systems can support, but not replace, culture change

ruth brice2019-05-10T08:24:07+00:00

Full reference: Maryland’s Experiment With Capitated Payments For Rural Hospitals: Large Reductions In Hospital-Based Care. Jesse M. Pines, Sonal Vats, Mark S. Zocchi, Bernard Black. (2019) HEALTH AFFAIRS . Vol. 38, NO. 4 Link to Paper This week’s blog is brought to you by: Dr Tim Wilson, Managing Director Authors conclusion Inpatient admissions and outpatient services fell sharply at [study] hospitals, increasingly so over the period that [capitated payment] was in effect. Emergency department (ED) admission rates declined 12 percent, direct (non-ED) admissions fell 23 percent, ambulatory surgery center visits fell 45 percent, and outpatient clinic visits and services fell 40 percent. However, for residents of [capitated payment] counties, visits to all Maryland hospitals fell by lesser amounts and Medicare spending increased, [...]

Paper of the Week: 10th May 2019: Better payment systems can support, but not replace, culture changeruth brice2019-05-10T08:24:07+00:00

26 04, 2019

Paper of the Week: 26th April 2019: Shared Decision Making and the Importance of Time

ruth brice2019-04-26T12:46:40+00:00

For many professionals, and almost all patients , the value of time is more precious than money Full reference: Pieterse A.M., Stiggelbout A.M., Montori V.M. JAMA. Published online April 19, 2019. doi:10.1001/jama.2019.3785 This weeks Paper of the Week is brought to you by Sir Muir Gray, Founding Director. WEB LINK TO PAPER Authors conclusion “health care professionals, patient advocates, health care systems, and policy makers need to recognise that time is not simply a resource, its minutes indifferent and interchangeable like dollars or euros. A minute spent in providing information may turn out to be less important than a minute spent waiting silently for patient questions, or a minute responding emphatically to angst and loss, or a [...]

Paper of the Week: 26th April 2019: Shared Decision Making and the Importance of Timeruth brice2019-04-26T12:46:40+00:00

11 04, 2019

Paper of the Week: 11.04.2019: Breast Cancer Treatment, what to start, what to stop?

ruth brice2019-04-11T17:36:53+00:00

Full Reference: Overall Survival with Fulvestrant plus Anastrozole in Metastatic Breast Cancer, Rita S. Mehta, Et al, N Engl J Med 2019; 380:1226-1234, DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1811714 Web link to Paper This week’s blog is brought to you by: Dr Tim Wilson Authors conclusion In this trial, we found that combination therapy with anastrozole plus fulvestrant significantly prolonged, as compared with treatment with anastrozole alone, the primary and secondary end points of progression-free survival (P=0.007) and long-term overall survival (P=0.03) when used as first-line therapy for hormone-receptor–positive metastatic breast cancer in postmenopausal women. 3VH - Implications for value Another promising treatment emerges for breast cancer. Not a cure, but one that prolongs survival from 42 to 49.8 months in women [...]

Paper of the Week: 11.04.2019: Breast Cancer Treatment, what to start, what to stop?ruth brice2019-04-11T17:36:53+00:00

27 03, 2019

Paper of the Week 27.03.2019: Toward Precision Policy — The Case of Cardiovascular Care

ruth brice2019-03-27T16:12:11+00:00

This week’s paper of the week is brought to you by Professor Sir Muir Gray, 3V’s Founding Director. Author’s conclusion “If we are serious about improving quality of care and patient outcomes — whether mortality, readmissions, or patient centered [clinical] outcomes such as freedom from angina or heart failure symptoms — we have a responsibility to ensure that policies are grounded in evidence. We believe it’s imperative that before policies are implemented widely, rigorous studies be conducted to determine whether they achieve their goals. In addition to taking an evidence- first approach to policy implementation, we can better target policies toward specific diseases… As we move toward precision medicine and the delivery of diagnostic and therapeutic advances individualized [...]

Paper of the Week 27.03.2019: Toward Precision Policy — The Case of Cardiovascular Careruth brice2019-03-27T16:12:11+00:00

1 03, 2019

Paper of the week 27.02.19: Has the NHS Long Term Plan forgotten we are all going to die?

ruth brice2019-03-01T11:14:40+00:00

Reference: Has the Long Term Plan forgotten we are all going to die? (Bleakley T., Smith R., Taylor R) This week’s paper of the week is brought to you by Professor Sir Muir Gray, 3V’s Founding Director. Bottom line, chosen by Muir from the paper "One certainty is that there will be a lot of dying in the next 10 years as the baby boomers become the dying boomers... Increasingly, people endure slow deaths of frailty, often with dementia in the final years. Increased life expectancy is generally regarded as a cause for celebration, but many people fear dependency and dementia more than they fear death... Between a quarter and a third of health-care expenditure is for care [...]

Paper of the week 27.02.19: Has the NHS Long Term Plan forgotten we are all going to die?ruth brice2019-03-01T11:14:40+00:00

8 02, 2019

Paper of the week 08.02.19: The Medicalization of Population Health

ruth brice2019-02-08T13:04:49+00:00

Reference: The Medicalization of Population Health: Who Will Stay Upstream? Paula M. Lantz December 2018 Millbank Quarterly This week’s paper of the week is brought to you by Professor Sir Muir Gray, 3V’s Founding Director. Bottom line, chosen by Muir from the paper Population health management can be described as a collection of downstream efforts earnestly working to build a strong scaffolding from which people can be pulled from treacherous waters… …Although these efforts are indeed necessary and generally positive, they are also woefully insufficient if the overarching goal is improved health outcomes and health equity at the societal level… Implications for value improvement Population health management has become fashionable and who could gainsay this trend? It seems right and [...]

Paper of the week 08.02.19: The Medicalization of Population Healthruth brice2019-02-08T13:04:49+00:00