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An overview of current approaches and opportunities for improvement : report by the Expert Group on Health System Performance Assessment
Tools and methodologies to assess the efficiency of health care services in Europe
An overview of current approaches and opportunities for improvement : report by the Expert Group on Health System Performance Assessment
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In the face of rising cost pressures and increasing demand for care services, national health systems across Europe are striving to supply universal access to essential, high-quality care while safeguarding their long-term sustainability. In this context, European governments are ever more focused on finding ways to improve the efficiency of their health care systems to tackle this dual challenge. While a growing body of evidence suggests that considerable room exists for optimising health care spending without impairing access and quality of care, developing appropriate methods to measure and assess health care efficiency is crucial to correctly identify wasteful practice and design policy interventions that effectively improve efficiency. In this regard, the Expert Group on Health Systems Performance Assessment (HSPA) noted that, despite considerable progress in the last decade, the development of tools and methodologies to assess health care efficiency is still in its early stage, and that an array of technical and informational limitations render developing more advanced efficiency assessment tools an arduous task. This new report by the Expert Group on HSPA aims at supporting national policy-makers in their efforts achieve this objective.
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- Corporate author(s): Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety (European Commission)
- Themes: Public health
- Subject: expert group (EU) , health care , health care system , health policy , health service , organisation of health care , performance audit , performance measurement , policymaking , report , research method
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| ISSN | ISBN 978-92-76-02613-6 | DOI 10.2875/346480 | Catalogue number EW-01-19-365-EN-N |
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| ISSN | ISBN 978-92-76-02614-3 | DOI 10.2875/77000 | Catalogue number EW-01-19-365-EN-C |
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