The VALUE Framework: Training Residents to Provide Value-Based Care for their Patients

Do Travel Agencies provide Sufficient Value to their Clients?

Airline commissions’ cuts and the use of Internet for reservations have severely affected Swiss travel agencies. To survive, travel agents are redesigning their job as to become travel consultants. However, customers are not willing to pay for the service provided and current fees are not representative of its perceived value. We have designed a theatre-based experiment to discover the Willingn...

Training Physicians to Provide High-Value, Cost-Conscious Care: A Systematic Review.

IMPORTANCE Increasing health care expenditures are taxing the sustainability of the health care system. Physicians should be prepared to deliver high-value, cost-conscious care. OBJECTIVE To understand the circumstances in which the delivery of high-value, cost-conscious care is learned, with a goal of informing development of effective educational interventions. DATA SOURCES PubMed, EMBASE...

A Single Competency-Based Education and Training and Competency-Based Career Framework for the Australian Health Workforce: Discussing the Potential Value Add

This brief discusses the policy implications of a research study commissioned by Health Workforce Australia (HWA) within its health workforce innovation and reform work program. The project explored conceptually complex and operationally problematic concepts related to developing a whole-of-workforce competency-based education and training and competency-based career framework for the Australia...

The Road to Value-Based Health Care

Evaluating Frameworks That Provide Value Measures for Health Care Interventions.

The recent acceleration of scientific discovery has led to greater choices in health care. New technologies, diagnostic tests, and pharmaceuticals have widely varying impact on patients and populations in terms of benefits, toxicities, and costs, stimulating a resurgence of interest in the creation of frameworks intended to measure value in health. Many of these are offered by providers and/or ...