Problems with Current Approaches to Measuring and Assigning Accountability for Healthcare Spending

Measuring and Assigning Accountability for Healthcare Spending Fair and Effective Ways to Analyze the Drivers of Healthcare Costs and Transition to Value-Based Payment

Health Services Research Spending and Healthcare System Impact; Comment on “Public Spending on Health Service and Policy Research in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States: A Modest Proposal”

The challenges associated with translating health services and policy research (HSPR) evidence into practice are many and long-standing. Indeed, those challenges have themselves spawned new areas of research, including knowledge translation and implementation science. These sub-disciplines have increased our understanding of the critical success factors associated with the uptake of research ev...

Moving Towards Accountability for Reasonableness – A Systematic Exploration of the Features of Legitimate Healthcare Coverage Decision-Making Processes Using Rare Diseases and Regenerative Therapies as a Case Study

Background The accountability for reasonableness (A4R) framework defines 4 conditions for legitimate healthcare coverage decision processes: Relevance, Publicity, Appeals, and Enforcement. The aim of this study was to reflect on how the diverse features of decision-making processes can be aligned with A4R conditions to guide decisio...

Measuring performance in the NHS.qxp

Public spending on healthcare has increased significantly over the past five years. One way to assess the benefits of such spending is to look at how well trusts can convert the increased resources into improved healthcare outcomes. This article reviews a number of suggested approaches to measuring performance in the UK’s NHS and provides an illustrative analysis of the efficiency of the so-cal...

محاسبه ی کارایی بخش بهداشت ایران در میان کشور های اسلامی منتخب

Introduction: Government Healthcare expenditure in many countries reaches to 6 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Efficiency of these expenditures is very important, and any change in this expenditure have notable effects on economic variables. Present study was aimed to estimate the ef- ficiency of Iran government healthcare expenditures among some Islamic countries. Methods: We use Data...