Author: Josepha Scheffer

  • Assessing the maturity of the healthcare system for integrated care: testing measurement properties of the SCIROCCO tool

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  • Call for new policies to ensure added benefit of newly approved drugs

    Call for new policies to ensure added benefit of newly approved drugs

    Janne Mewes, Anne Voermans, Bert Vrijhoef. How many of the newly approved drugs provide a substantial benefit to patients? When asking people from the general public their answer would probably be “all of them” or “the majority”. A recently published analysis conducted by researchers of the German health technology assessment agency IQWiG (Wieseler et al.…

  • Implementation fidelity of a strategy to integrate service delivery: learnings from a transitional care program for individuals with complex needs in Singapore

    Research article published on BMC Health Serv Res. 2019 Mar 19 AUTHORS: Nurjono M , Shrestha P, Ang IYH, Shiraz F, Toh SESS, Vrijhoef H ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: To cope with rising demand for healthcare services in Singapore, Regional Health Systems (RHS) comprising of health and social care providers across care settings were set up to integrate…

  • Retrospective evaluation of healthcare utilisation and mortality of two post-discharge care programmes in Singapore

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  • Value of information analysis in telehealth for chronic heart failure management

    Results of our VOI exercise show that the cost of uncertainty regarding the decision on reimbursement of telehealth interventions for chronic heart failure patients is high in the Netherlands.

  • Validation of a questionnaire measuring patient knowledge of atrial fibrillation in an Asian cohort

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  • Is procalcitonin biomarker-guided antibiotic therapy a cost-effective approach to reduce antibiotic resistant and Clostridium difficile infections in hospitalized patients?

    Research article published in Omics: a journal of integrative biology, Vol. 22, No. 9 AUTHORS: Steuten L, Mewes J, Lepage-Nefkens I, Vrijhoef H ABSTRACT Antibiotics (AB) can reduce morbidity and mortality in the treatment of patients with sepsis and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exacerbations. Yet, AB overuse or misuse increases antibiotic resistance (ABR) and…

  • Decision analytic support model to guide implementation of laboratory assay

    Decision analytic support model to guide implementation of laboratory assay

    Panaxea to develop a decision analytic support model to guide this implementation. Interviews with key stakeholders were carried out to analyze factors that either facilitate or prevent uptake of this assay, and to identify the most important target groups.

  • Impact Analysis Public Private Partnership (PPP)

    Impact Analysis Public Private Partnership (PPP)

    In this project we performed an impact-analysis on scientific, translational/clinical and socio-economic aspects of a Public Private Partnership (PPP).