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Synopsis
Better Value Healthcare Ltd (BVHC) is an Oxford-based company set up by Professor Sir Muir Gray to promote the practice of value-based healthcare for individuals and organisations in the healthcare sector. BVHC creates and disseminates training materials, delivers training courses, and engages in consultancy to help the key players in healthcare understand and increase value in their services. Part of BVHC’s portfolio is the Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (CASP), which delivers training to help people make sense of scientific literature. Website: www.bettervaluehealthcare.net
Episodes
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Paper of the Week 23rd August 2019: Yet again, more is not always better
23/08/2019 Duration: 06minFull reference and title from the journal: Intensive Glucose Control in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes — 15-Year Follow-up Reaven P.D. et al (2019) N Engl J Med 2019;380:2215-24.
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Paper of the Week: 2nd August 2019 -Lessons on paying for value from the US health policy laboratory
02/08/2019 Duration: 05minThis week’s blog is brought to you by Dr Tim Wilson Health Care Spending, Utilization, and Quality 8 Years into Global Payment Song, Z., Ji, Y., Safran, D. G., & Chernew, M. E. (2019). Health Care Spending, Utilization, and Quality 8 Years into Global Payment. New England Journal of Medicine, 381(3), 252–263.
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Issue of the Month: August 2019 - What does the EU think is value-based healthcare?
01/08/2019 Duration: 13minExpert Panel on effective ways of investing in Health (EXPH), Defining value in “value-based healthcare”
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Friday 26th July 2019: Paper of the Week-Physician Beliefs and Patient Preferences
25/07/2019 Duration: 05minPhysician Beliefs and Patient Preferences: A New Look at Regional Variation in Health Care Spending Cutler, David, Jonathan S. Skinner, Ariel Dora Stern, and David Wennberg. 2019. "Physician Beliefs and Patient Preferences: A New Look at Regional Variation in Health Care Spending." American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 11 (1): 192-221.
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Paper of the Week: Thursday 15th August 2019- Why productivity isnt enough
25/07/2019 Duration: 05minWhy productivity isn't enough Atella, V., Belotti, F., Bojke, C., Castelli, A., Grašič, K., Kopinska, J., … Street, A. (2019). How health policy shapes healthcare sector productivity? Evidence from Italy and UK. Health Policy, 123(1), 27–36. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.HEALTHPOL.2018.10.016
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Thursday 8th August 2019: Paper of the Week-What is fair in healthcare
25/07/2019 Duration: 06minWhat is fair in healthcare Chamberlain, C., Owen-Smith, A., MacKichan, F., Donovan, J. L., & Hollingworth, W. (2019). “What’s fair to an individual is not always fair to a population”: a qualitative study of patients and their health professionals using the Cancer Drugs Fund. Health Policy, 123(8), 706–712.
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Paper of the Week 22nd July
22/07/2019 Duration: 08minPaper of the Week: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Cost-of-Care Conversations https://annals.org/aim/fullarticle/2732826/7-habits-highly-effective-cost-care-conversations
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Paper of the Week: Why are we wasting precious resources to deliver low value at the end of life?”
12/07/2019 Duration: 06minWhy are we wasting precious resources to deliver low value at the end of life?” Warraich, H. J., & Meier, D. E. (2019). Serious-Illness Care 2.0 — Meeting the Needs of Patients with Heart Failure. New England Journal of Medicine, 380(26), 2492–2494. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMp1900584
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The inverse care law continues to thrive in the NHS for vascular surgery
05/07/2019 Duration: 06minThe inverse care law continues to thrive in the NHS for vascular surgery (and probably more) Giuseppe Moscelli, Luigi Siciliani, NilsGutacker, Richard Cookson Socioeconomic inequality of access to healthcare: Does choice explain the gradient? Journal of Health Economics, 57, 290–314.
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Paper of the Week 28th June 2019 Precision Medicine
28/06/2019 Duration: 05minPaper of the Week: The Precision of Evidence Needed to Practice “Precision Medicine” Hunter D.S. and Dan L. Longo D. L. (2019) newengl j med 380;25;2472-2475
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Paper of the Week 21st June: What Are Polygenic Scores and Why Are They Important?
21/06/2019 Duration: 07minWhat Are Polygenic Scores and Why Are They Important? Full reference: JAMA May 14, 2019 Volume 321, Number 18 1820 -1821
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Health equity measurement framework: a comprehensive model to measure social inequities in health
14/06/2019 Duration: 07minThe health equity measurement framework: a comprehensive model to measure social inequities in health Full reference: Dover D.C. and Belon A.P.(2019) International Journal for Equity in Health 18;36
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Paper of the Week 7th June 2019
07/06/2019 Duration: 05minPaper of the Week: Optimality in cancer redefined for the 21st century. The ROC Curve Redefined—Optimizing Sensitivity (and Specificity) to the Lived Reality of Cancer. New England Journal of Medicine, 2019 380(17), pp.1594-1595. Walker, S.P. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31018068
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Knights and Knaves;with the “wrong” incentives, most clinicians exhibit a culture of stewardship
29/05/2019 Duration: 05minKnights and Knaves; even with the “wrong” incentives, most clinicians exhibit a culture of stewardship https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/hec.3875
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Paper of the Week 24th May 2019: What to start, what to stop, and who should do it?
24/05/2019 Duration: 06minSelective laser trabeculoplasty versus eye drops for first-line treatment of ocular hypertension and glaucoma (LiGHT): a multicentre randomised controlled trial
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Paper of the Week 17th May 2019: Measuring What Matters in Diabetes
17/05/2019 Duration: 05minPaper of the Week 17th May 2019: Measuring What Matters in Diabetes
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Paper of the Week 10th May: Better payment systems can support, but not replace, culture change
10/05/2019 Duration: 05minBetter payment systems can support, but not replace, culture change https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.2018.05366 More info can be found at www.3vh.org
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Paper of the Week: 3rd May 2019 - New hypertension guidance risks over diagnosis and over treatment
02/05/2019 Duration: 06minTo assess the value of an innovation it is essential not only to assess cost effectiveness but to think what else could be done with the money, or with the time of the clinicians who will deliver the service.
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Paper of the Week 24th April 2019: Shared Decision Making and the Importance of Time
25/04/2019 Duration: 07minPaper of the Week 24th April 2019: Shared Decision Making and the Importance of Time For many professionals, and almost all patients , the value of time is more precious than money
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Paper of the Week 11th April 2019: Breast cancer treatment, what to start, what to stop?
11/04/2019 Duration: 06minPaper of the Week 11.04.2019: Breast cancer treatment, what to start, what to stop?