Value-based health care: alignment the tools and methods (literature review)

Abstract

The desire to solve the problem of efficient spending of funds in the public sector has been transformed into an understanding of values. The desire to reduce costs, maintain the proper quality and maximize the availability of medical care led to the emergence and formation of a new concept of effective functioning based on values - VBHC (Value-based Health Care). Purpose. To systematize the criteria, metrics and methods for evaluating effectiveness in the context of the VHBC concept. To obtain the necessary information, a selective literature review was carried out. Electronic bibliographic databases in Russian (“RSCI/eLibrary”) and English (“Pubmed”) were used. Search queries were formed taking into account the MeSH nomenclature. To determine the effectiveness of the provision of medical services and the implementation of government programs (projects) in general, there are a number of methods. First of all, it is an analysis of costs, benefits, effectiveness and benefits. The most applicable performance measure is Quality Adjusted Life Years. QALY is a universal indicator of any health program. This expression of “utility” is by default the ultimate goal (final target unofficial indicator) of any government management decision in health care. Assessing the effectiveness of health care and developing a value-based model of health care through cost-benefit analysis is a time-consuming and important task. The study showed that it is necessary to use multidimensional tools for assessing the effectiveness of medical care. Conclusions. As a result of the review, it was found that there is no unified information system that offers ready-made assessment tools, and metrics have not been developed to evaluate the effectiveness of value-based healthcare VBHC models. It seems possible to create a checklist with universal parameters, implement it into a ready-made information system available on the market today to any medical institution, and analyze the effectiveness of the VBHC model based on the developed checklist.