OUTPUT

VIDEOS

The HealthPros Network has been running from 2018 and came to an end in March 2022. We had a fantastic group of researchers working together to develop tools and implement methods to streamline healthcare performance measurement, develop and apply performance-based governance mechanisms and optimize the use of healthcare performance intelligence by different end-users. They explored different topics, like;

actionability of performance indicators
composite measures
integrated care
corporate governance tools
patient and citizen engagement
Nudging
use of routine databases for performance improvement
long-term care.

As the COVID-19 pandemic paralleled the HealthPros programme, many Fellows and the network at-large, sought opportunities to conduct a number of COVID-19-related studies at pace with the pandemic’s changing context. All fellows prepared a short video explaining their work in HealthPros (HealthPros 3 years in 3 minutes..or a little longer..).

Please go to the short descriptions page to watch their videos! (or click here to go there directly)

PUBLICATIONS

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Sorted by most recent, scroll down to find a list that is sorted in alphabetical order (or click on this link)

Larrain N, Groene O. Improving the evaluation of an integrated healthcare system using entropy balancing: Population health improvements in Gesundes Kinzigtal. SSM Popul Health. 2023 Feb 24;22:101371. doi: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2023.101371. PMID: 36909929; PMCID: PMC9996350.
Larrain N, Wang S, Stargardt T, Groene O. Cooperation improvement in an integrated healthcare network: A social network analysis. International Journal of Integrated Care. 2023.
Barbazza E, Ivanković D, Davtyan K, Mircha Poldrugovac, Zhamin Yelgezekova, Claire Willmington, Bernardo Meza-Torres, Véronique L.L.C. Bos, Óscar Brito Fernandes, Alexandru Rotar, Sabina Nuti, Milena Vainieri, Fabrizio Carinci, Natasha Azzopardi-Muscat, Oliver Groene, David Novillo-Ortiz, Niek Klazinga, Dionne Kringos. The experiences of 33 national COVID-19 dashboard teams during the first year of the pandemic in the World Health Organization European Region: A qualitative study. DIGITAL HEALTH. January 2022. doi:10.1177/20552076221121154
Barbazza E, Verheij RA, Ramerman L, Niek Klazinga, Dionne Kringos. Optimising the secondary use of primary care prescribing data to improve quality of care: a qualitative analysis. BMJ Open 2022;12:e062349. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-062349
Kara P, Valentin JB, Mainz J, Johnsen SP. (2022) Composite measures of quality of health care: Evidence mapping of methodology and reporting. PLoS ONE 17(5): e0268320.
Ruby S. M. Tsang, Mark Joy, Heather Whitaker, James P. Sheppard, John Williams, Julian Sherlock, Nikhil Mayor, Bernardo Meza-Torres, Elizabeth Button, Alice J. Williams, Debasish Kar, Gayathri Delanerolle, Richard McManus, F. D. Richard Hobbs, Simon de Lusignan. Development and validation of a modified Cambridge Multimorbidity Score for use with internationally recognized electronic health record clinical terms (SNOMED CT). medRxiv 2022.03.02.22271765;
Bos, V., Roorda, D., de Sonnaville, E. et al. Implementing structured follow-up of neonatal and paediatric patients: an evaluation of three university hospital case studies using the functional resonance analysis method. BMC Health Serv Res 22, 191 (2022).
Mayer N, Meza-Torres B, Okusi C, Delanerolle G, Chapman M, Wang W, Anand S, Feher M, Macartney J, Byford R, Joy M, Gatenby P, Curcin V, Greenhalgh T, Delaney B, de Lusignan S. Developing a post-acute COVID-19 (long covid) phenotype in a national primary care sentinel cohort: protocol for an observational retrospective database analysis. JMIR Preprints. 03/02/2022:36989
de Lange M.*, Carvalho, A.S.*, Brito Fernandes, Ó., Lingsma, H., Klazinga, N., Kringos, D. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on hospital services for patients with cardiac diseases: a scoping review. Int J Environ Res Public Health 19(6):3172 (2022). DOI: 10.3390/ijerph19063172
Willmington, C., Belardi, P., Murante, A.M. et al. The contribution of benchmarking to quality improvement in healthcare. A systematic literature review. BMC Health Serv Res 22, 139 (2022).
Meza-Torres, B., Carinci, F., Heiss, C. et al. Health service organisation impact on lower extremity amputations in people with type 2 diabetes with foot ulcers: systematic review and meta-analysis. Acta Diabetol 58, 735–747 (2021).
Greiver M, Havard A, Bowles JK, Kalia S, Chen T, Aliarzadeh B, Moineddin R, Sherlock J, Hinton W, Sullivan F, O’Neill B, Pow C, Bhatt A, Rahman F, Meza-Torres B, Litchfield M, de Lusignan S. Trends in diabetes medication use in Australia, Canada, England, and Scotland: a repeated cross-sectional analysis in primary care. Br J Gen Pract. 2021 Feb 25;71(704):e209-e218. doi: 10.3399/bjgp20X714089. PMID: 33619050; PMCID: PMC7906622.
Ivankovic, D., Barbazza, E., Klazinga, N., & Kringos, D. (2021). Comment on Verhulsdonck and Shah’s “Lean Data Visualization: Considering Actionable Metrics for Technical Communication.” In Journal of Business and Technical Communication (Vol. 36, Issue 1, pp. 105–113). SAGE Publications.
Barbazza, E., Allin, S., Byrnes, M., Andrea D Foebel, Tanya Khan , Patricia Sidhom , Niek S Klazinga and Dionne S Kringos. The current and potential uses of Electronic Medical Record (EMR) data for primary health care performance measurement in the Canadian context: a qualitative analysis. BMC Health Serv Res 21, 820 (2021).
Barbazza E, Ivanković D, Wang S, Gilmore KJ, Poldrugovac M, Willmington C, Larrain N, Bos V, Allin S, Klazinga N, Kringos D.Exploring Changes to the Actionability of COVID-19 Dashboards Over the Course of 2020 in the Canadian Context: Descriptive Assessment and Expert Appraisal Study.J Med Internet Res 2021;23(8):e30200
Óscar Brito Fernandes, Erica Barbazza, Damir Ivanković, Tessa Jansen, Niek S. Klazinga and Dionne S. Kringos. Engaging citizens in the development of a health system performance assessment framework: a case study in Ireland. Health Research Policy and Systems (2021) 19:148
Barbazza E, Ivankovic D, Davtyan K, Poldrugovac M, Yelgezekova Z, Willmington C, Meza-Torres B, et al. The experiences of 33 national COVID-19 dashboard teams during the first year of the pandemic in the WHO European Region: a qualitative study. 2021 Nov
de Lange M.*, Carvalho, A.S.*, Brito Fernandes, Ó., Lingsma, H., Klazinga, N., Kringos, D. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on hospital services for patients with cardiac diseases: a scoping review. Int J Environ Res Public Health 19(6):3172 (2022). DOI: 10.3390/ijerph19063172
Bos VLLC, Klazinga NS, Kringos DS. Improving performance intelligence for governing an integrated health and social care delivery network: a case study on the Amsterdam Noord district. BMC Health Serv Res. 2021 May 28;21(1):517. doi: 10.1186/s12913-021-06558-2. PMID: 34049542; PMCID: PMC8160080.
Meza-Torres B, Carinci F, Heiss C, Joy M, de Lusignan S. Health service organisation impact on lower extremity amputations in people with type 2 diabetes with foot ulcers: systematic review and meta-analysis. Acta Diabetol. 2021 Jun;58(6):735-747. doi: 10.1007/s00592-020-01662-x. Epub 2021 Feb 6. PMID: 33547497; PMCID: PMC7864802.
Bos VLLC, Jansen T, Klazinga NS, Kringos DS. Development and Actionability of the Dutch COVID-19 Dashboard: Descriptive Assessment and Expert Appraisal Study. JMIR Public Health Surveill. 2021 Oct 12;7(10):e31161. doi: 10.2196/31161. PMID: 34543229; PMCID: PMC8513744.
Claire Willmington, Milena Vainieri, Chiara Seghieri. (20 November 2021). The International Journal of Health Planning and Management. Estimating variations in the use of antibiotics in primary care: Insights from the Tuscany region, Italy.
Larrain N, Groene O (2021) Simulation modeling to assess performance of integrated healthcare systems: Literature review to characterize the field and visual aid to guide model selection. PLOS ONE 16(7): e0254334.
Brito Fernandes Ó, Lobo Julião P, Klazinga N, Kringos D, Marques N. COVID-19 Preparedness and Perceived Safety in Nursing Homes in Southern Portugal: A Cross-Sectional Survey-Based Study in the Initial Phases of the Pandemic. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2021; 18(15):7983.
Corazza, I., Gilmore, K.J., Menegazzo, F., Abols, V. Benchmarking experience to improve paediatric healthcare: listening to the voices of families from two European Children’s University Hospitals. BMC Health Serv Res 21, 93 (2021).
K. Jamieson Gilmore, S. De Rosis, S. Nuti PNS245 Do Patient Preferences Change in a Pandemic? Exploring Italian Patient Reported Experience DATA during the COVID-19 Crisis. Value in Health, VOLUME 23, SUPPLEMENT 2, S682, DECEMBER 01, 2020.

D. Kringos , F. Carinci, E. Barbazza, V. Bos, K. Gilmore, O. Groene, L. Gulácsi, D. Ivankovic, T. Jansen, S. P. Johnsen, S. de Lusignan, J. Mainz, S. Nuti, N. Klazinga and on behalf of the HealthPros Network. Open Access Managing COVID-19 within and across health systems: why we need performance intelligence to coordinate a global response. Health Research Policy and Systems (2020) 18:80
Zsombor Zrubka, Óscar Brito Fernandes, Petra Baji, Ottó Hajdu, Levente Kovács, Dionne Kringos, Niek Klazinga, László Gulácsi, Valentin Brodszky, Fanni Rencz, Márta Péntek^.Exploring eHealth Literacy and Patient-Reported Experiences with Outpatient Care in the Hungarian General Adult Population: A Cross-Sectional Study. J Med Internet Res. 2020 Jun 15. doi: 10.2196/19013. Online ahead of print.
Brito Fernandes Ó, Péntek M, Kringos D, Klazinga N, Gulácsi L, Baji P (2020) Eliciting preferences for outpatient care experiences in Hungary: A discrete choice experiment with a national representative sample. PLoS ONE 15(7): e0235165.
Brito Fernandes, Ó., Netshiombo, M., Gulácsi, L., Klazinga, N. S., Péntek, M., & Baji, P. (2020). Patient experiences in a public primary health care clinic: A South African case study, Society and Economy SOCEC.
Shukor, A.R., Barbazza, E., Klazinga, N. and Kringos, D.S. A problem-oriented systems approach to primary care system development: development and initial testing of the problem-oriented primary care system development record. BMC Health Serv Res 20, 706 (2020).
Brito Fernandes Ó, Baji P, Kringos D, Klazinga N, Gulácsi L, Lucevic A, Boncz I, Péntek M. Patient experiences with outpatient care in Hungary: results of an online population survey. Eur J Health Econ. 2019 Jun;20(Suppl 1):79-90. doi: 10.1007/s10198-019-01064-z. Epub 2019 May 16.
Lucevic A, Péntek M, Kringos D, Klazinga N, Gulácsi L, Brito Fernandes Ó, Boncz I, Baji P. Unmet medical needs in ambulatory care in Hungary: forgone visits and medications from a representative population survey. Eur J Health Econ. 2019 Jun;20(Suppl 1):71-78. doi: 10.1007/s10198-019-01063-0. Epub 2019 May 17.
Kringos DS, Groene O, Johnsen SP. Training the First Generation of Health Care Performance Intelligence Professionals in Europe and Canada. Acad Med. 2019 Jun;94(6):747-748. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000002694.
Marie Delnord, F Tille, L A Abboud, D Ivankovic, H Van Oyen, How can we monitor the impact of national health information systems? Results from a scoping review. European Journal of Public Health, ckz164.
Erica Barbazza, Dionne Kringos, Ioana Kruse, Niek S. Klazinga and Juan E. Tello. Creating performance intelligence for primary health care strengthening in Europe. BMC Health Services Research (2019) 19:1006 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-019-4853-z
Tello J, Barbazza E, Waddell K. Review of 128 quality of care mechanisms: A framework and mapping for health system stewards. Health Policy; 2020 124(1): 12-24.
Tello, Juan, Pardo-Hernandez, Hector, Rodrigues, Ricardo, Leichsenring, Kai, Ilinca, Stefania, Huber, Manfred , Aguirre, Isabel, Barbazza, Erica (2020). A services delivery perspective to the provision of long-term care in Portugal. Portuguese Journal of Public Health. 5. 8-27.
EHFG (European Health Forum Gastein). A healthy dose of disruption? Transformative change for health and societal wellbeing. Conference report of the European Health Forum Gastein, Gastein, Austria, 2-4 October 2019. (Kendall Jamieson Gilmore was a contributing author, listed on p75).
Damir Ivankovic ,Mircha Poldrugovac,Pascal Garel,Niek S. Klazinga,Dionne S. Kringos. Why, what and how do European healthcare managers use performance data? Results of a survey and workshop among members of the European Hospital and Healthcare Federation. PLOS One, April 8, 2020.

(Dutch website) Transparancy monitoring, contribution of Veronique Bos: Transparantiemonitor Nivel 2020/2021: is onze marktsamenwerking toe aan sharing is caring? – Guus Schrijvers

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Journal of Tissue Viability, 2021, , ISSN 0965-206X

Shukor, A.R., Barbazza, E., Klazinga, N. and Kringos, D.S. A problem-oriented systems approach to primary care system development: development and initial testing of the problem-oriented primary care system development record. BMC Health Serv Res 20, 706 (2020).
Tello J, Barbazza E, Waddell K. Review of 128 quality of care mechanisms: A framework and mapping for health system stewards. Health Policy; 2020 124(1): 12-24.
Tello J, Barbazza E, Kluge H. Accelerating primary health care on its fortieth anniversary: a must-do to extend coverage to quality services for advancing universal health coverage. Public Health Panorama (2018); 4(4).
Tello J, Barbazza E, Yelgezekova Z, Kruse I, Klazinga N, Kringos D [eds] (2020). Indicator passports: WHO European Primary Health Care Impact, Performance and Capacity Tool. Copenhagen: WHO Regional Office for Europe.
Tello J, Barbazza E, Yelgezekova Z, Kruse I, Klazinga N, Kringos D [eds] (2020). Glossary of terms: WHO European Primary Health Care Impact, Performance and Capacity Tool. Copenhagen: WHO Regional Office for Europe.
Tello, Juan, Pardo-Hernandez, Hector, Rodrigues, Ricardo, Leichsenring, Kai, Ilinca, Stefania, Huber, Manfred , Aguirre, Isabel, Barbazza, Erica (2020). A services delivery perspective to the provision of long-term care in Portugal. Portuguese Journal of Public Health. 5. 8-27
Ruby S. M. Tsang, Mark Joy, Heather Whitaker, James P. Sheppard, John Williams, Julian Sherlock, Nikhil Mayor, Bernardo Meza-Torres, Elizabeth Button, Alice J. Williams, Debasish Kar, Gayathri Delanerolle, Richard McManus, F. D. Richard Hobbs, Simon de Lusignan. Development and validation of a modified Cambridge Multimorbidity Score for use with internationally recognized electronic health record clinical terms (SNOMED CT). medRxiv 2022.03.02.22271765;

Sophie Y. Wang, Oliver Groene. The effectiveness of behavioural economics-informed interventions on physician behavioral change: A systematic literature review. PLOS ONE, June 2020
Willmington, C., Belardi, P., Murante, A.M. et al. The contribution of benchmarking to quality improvement in healthcare. A systematic literature review. BMC Health Serv Res 22, 139 (2022).
Claire Willmington, Milena Vainieri, Chiara Seghieri. (20 November 2021). The International Journal of Health Planning and Management. Estimating variations in the use of antibiotics in primary care: Insights from the Tuscany region, Italy.
Zsombor Zrubka, Óscar Brito Fernandes, Petra Baji, Ottó Hajdu, Levente Kovács, Dionne Kringos, Niek Klazinga, László Gulácsi, Valentin Brodszky, Fanni Rencz, Márta Péntek^.Exploring eHealth Literacy and Patient-Reported Experiences with Outpatient Care in the Hungarian General Adult Population: A Cross-Sectional Study. J Med Internet Res. 2020 Jun 15. doi: 10.2196/19013. Online ahead of print.
EHFG (European Health Forum Gastein). A healthy dose of disruption? Transformative change for health and societal wellbeing. Conference report of the European Health Forum Gastein, Gastein, Austria, 2-4 October 2019. (Kendall Jamieson Gilmore was a contributing author, listed on p75).

RECOMMENDATIONS

The lessons learned during the project, have been condensed in recommendations on various aspects of performance-based healthcare governance and end-user involvement.

This Healthcare Performance Intelligence Series represents the culmination of key research findings by the network into a collection of reports providing methodological, practical, and policy guidance. Reports in the series are tailored to different audiences, ranging from policy-makers, hospital managers, clinicians, and the general public. The development of each report in the series has relied on close collaboration across the HealthPros network. The range of topics and resources making up this series includes the following (click on the title to access):