European Collaboration for Healthcare Optimisation Atlas reports

"ECHO performance Atlases report unwarranted differences in health systems performance across ECHO countries. Atlas reports on cardiovascular care, lower value care and potentially avoidable admissions have been yielded. These reports feature international and in-country variations in performance, its evolution over-time, the effect of socioeconomic gradient, and provide some policy messages derived from the results."

European Collaboration for Healthcare Optimisation Atlas reports
February 2014

Access the Atlases here.

Avoiding low-value care (video)

"The enormous cost of health care in the United States, driven in part by the fee-for-service payment system, has inspired new efforts to assess the true value of commonly provided services. When a service is widely recognized as providing little or no benefit, what should be done to reduce its use?"

Perspective roundtable: avoiding low-value care
AA Gawande, CH Colla, SD Halpern, BE Landon
New England Journal of Medicine, 2014, 370: e21

Watch the video discussion here.