External publications
2021
Patient-Reported Outcome Measures – an International Comparison
Healthcare quality is predominantly assessed using clinical or process indicators such as blood pressure or mortality rates, with the patient perspective often missing. Patient-Reported Outcome Measur...
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2021
The new strategic agenda for value transformation
The model for value-based healthcare introduced in 2006 by Porter and Teisberg is still relevant, but it is incomplete. Porter and Teisberg put a strong focus on measuring outcomes, but how to use the...
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2021
Value-based Healthcare: The answer to our future health challenges? The sense and non-sense of VBHC today, with recommendations for tomorrow
We live in a strongly ageing society in which the demand for care is growing and changing, while the number of people who can provide that care is not increasing correspondingly. High-quality innovati...
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2021
From value for money to value-based health services: a twenty-first century shift
A WHO policy brief on the value created by health systems, from the perspective of the entire health system.
In this report, the WHO considers how to value health more holistically by working through...
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2021
Expert consensus on moving towards a value-based healthcare system in the Netherlands: a Delphi study
A paper describing the outcomes of a Delphi study, used to reach consensus on the most important practices in moving towards a VBHC system.
Although there is great interest in VBHC, uncertainty rem...
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2021
Reducing Low-Value Care and Improving Health Care Value
Transitioning to a state of health care delivery that prioritizes value over volume will require balancing “top-down” policy prescriptions with a “bottom-up” approach geared toward affecting l...
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