EuroHOPE is based on analysing the progress of a disease, with specific interest in the role of health services and health care policy as a determinant of the progress. The main idea of the approach is that it analyses performance by using detailed data pertaining to specific health conditions to illuminate the interconnected aspects (i.e. financing, organisational structures, medical technology choices) that are responsible for health system performance (i.e. health outcomes and expenditure).
The project concentrates on five important disease groups: acute myocardial infarction (AMI), ischemic stroke, hip fracture, breast cancer and very low birth weight and preterm infants (VLBWI).
The project uses linkable patient-level data available from national sources of Finland, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Scotland and Sweden. The data allow measuring the outcome and the use of resources in uniformly-defined patient groups using standardized risk adjustment procedures in participating countries.
Clas Rehnberg
- Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
[Mar. 26th 2014]
