Priorities for creating a learning healthcare system based on routinely collected data

"Ongoing feedback of insights from data to patients, clinicians, managers and policymakers can be a powerful motivator for change as well as provide an evidence base for action. Many studies and systems have demonstrated that routine data can be a powerful tool when used appropriately to improve the quality of care."

Making sense of the shadows: priorities for creating a learning healthcare system based on routinely collected data
SR Deeny, A Steventon
BMJ Quality and Safety 2015;24:505-515 doi:10.1136/bmjqs-2015-004278

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Allied health professionals - Can we measure quality of care?

"In this report, we explore the quality of care and services delivered by allied health professionals (AHPs). AHPs are a group of autonomous practitioners who work with many other professionals and at many points along the care pathway." 

Focus on: Allied health professionals - Can we measure quality of care? (Quality Watch)
H Dorning, M Bardsley
Health Foundation, Nuffield Trust
September 2014

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Health and healthcare: assessing the real world data policy landscape in Europe

"Real World Data is any data not collected in conventional randomised controlled trials. It includes data from existing secondary sources (eg databases of national health services) and the collection of new data, both retrospectively and prospectively." 

Health and healthcare: assessing the real world data policy landscape in Europe
C Miani, E Robin, V Horvath, C Manville, J Cave, J Chataway
RAND Corporation
April 2014

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Improving the quality of costing in the NHS

"there were only a limited number of organisations where cost information was used routinely outside of the finance department, and even less where it was used by clinicians to improve their own efficiency and the care that they delivered."

Improving the quality of costing in the NHS: Payment by Results data assurance framework
CAPITA
June 2014

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Commissioning for value data packs

"NHS England provided every CCG with a comprehensive data pack in October 2013 and area teams in March 2014 to support effective ‘commissioning for value’.

The packs fit directly with NHS England’s ‘call to action’ – planning to make the NHS sustainable into the future – and clearly show area teams and CCGs ‘where to look’ as a first stage to identify real opportunities to improve outcomes and increase value for local populations."

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International prevalence of adverse drug events in hospitals

"Adverse drug events (ADEs) are frequent in hospitals, occurring either in patients before admission or as a nosocomial event, and either as a drug reaction or as a consequence of a medication error. Routine data primarily recorded for reimbursement purposes are increasingly being used on a national level both in pharmacoepidemiological studies and in trigger tools. The aim of this study was to compare the prevalence rates of coded ADEs in hospitals on a transnational level."

International prevalence of adverse drug events in hospitals: an analysis of routine data from England, Germany, and the USA
J Stausberg
BMC Health Services Research, 2014, 14:125

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Identifying key vulnerable groups in data collections

"Our report, Hidden Needs, is about making the invisible visible. It demonstrates the yawning gaps in data, information analysis and research in four of the most vulnerable populations in society." 

Hidden needs: Identifying key vulnerable groups in data collections: Vulnerable migrants, gypsies and travellers, homeless people, and sex workers 
PJ Aspinall
Centre for Health Services Studies, University of Kent
March 2014

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Delivering major improvements in dementia care and research by 2015

"The NHS routinely collects data on patients as they receive care, which is a rich source of information about how disease and treatments work. The information collected includes data on biomarkers, diagnosis, treatment and clinical outcomes. This information is vital to understanding how the NHS and Social Care system can improve outcomes for patients, yet it remains a relatively untapped resource."

The Prime Minister's Challenge on dementia: Delivering major improvements in dementia care and research by 2015: annual report of progress
Department of Health
May 2013

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