Better Care and Better Value for Hip and Knee Replacement

"Robert Kaplan from the Harvard Business School explains the Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing (TDABC), a powerful way to capture and analyze every step and cost of the joint replacement process. IHI has been working with some 32 hip and knee replacement providers over the past year on TDABC and subsequent improvements as part of the IHI Joint Replacement Learning Community. We learn about them and their exciting work on this episode of WIHI."

WIHI: Better Care and Better Value for Hip and Knee Replacement (audio broadcast)
RS Kaplan, K Luther, C Abbott, J Rosengrant
Institute for Healthcare Improvement
October 2014

Listen to the recording here.

Video guides to Patient Reported Outcome Measures (videos)

The Health and Social Care Information Centre have produced some brief instructional videos to help you use and access their Patient Reported Outcomes Measures (PROMs) publications.

Access the videos here.

Understanding competition and choice in the NHS

"This report examines the changes in the roles of the NHS and the private sector in the funding and provision of two elective in-patient procedures: hip and knee replacements.

Public payment and private provision: the changing landscape of health care in the 2000s
S Arora, A Charlesworth, E Kelly, G Stoye
Nuffield Trust, Institute for Fiscal Studies
May 2013

Read more here.