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H2020Doctoral network2017–2020

IQCE · Improving Quality of Care in Europe

Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Duration
2017-01-01 → 2020-12-31
EU contribution
€3,877,749
Participants
19
Scheme
MSCA-ITN

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Results in brief

Improving Quality of Care in Europe

1) Improving the quality of health care and, in doing so, the health and wellbeing of people and populations across Europe requires drawing upon and also generating high-quality evidence in medical treatment and health services delivery. Previous research has not focused enough on identifying areas in which the quality of care is lacking, nor has it sufficiently explored the causes of low quality or developed adequate instruments to address it. This is precisely the springboard that the European Training Network (ETN) intends to use as it focuses on “Improving the Quality of Care in Europe” (IQCE) in its research programme. 2) The health care sector in Europe is a complex, adaptive system facing many challenges due to ageing populations, increasing demand, and the development of new technologies. Measuring and improving the quality of health care are crucial if Europe is to maintain its competitiveness in the global market and remain a healthy, equitable and prosperous place to live. High-quality research in this field can help deliver the social and technological solutions necessary to achieve these goals. 3) Overall objectives of the project • generate new evidence and improve existing health economic research on the quality of care • address research gaps through empirical, theoretical and experimental approaches with a focus on innovative econometric methods using novel databases • establish close links between the PhD projects undertaken as part of the programme and the most relevant elements of health policy and practice • train fellows to be experts in quality-of-care research and support them as they embark on the many career paths available in health economic research or practice • help address the fragmentation of health economic research in Europe through better coordination, thus improving the competitiveness of European researchers • serve as a model for joint PhD programmes in health economics in Europe

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Project objective

Improving quality of care has been given too little attention in health economic research in the past although it is the centralgoal of health care systems in Europe. The proposed ETN on “Improving Quality of Care in Europe (IQCE)” aims to addressthis gap and has the following aims: 1) Create new evidence and improve existing health economic research in the field ofquality of care. Research gaps are addressed by empirical, theoretical and experimental approaches with a focus oninnovative econometric methods using novel access to databases. 2) Establish a close link of the topical PhD projects tohealth policy and practice ensuring high relevance and practical applicability of results. Implementation of project results canpotentially enhance performance of European health care systems. 3) Train PhD fellows to be experts in the field of qualityof care and obtain excellent profiles for different career paths in health economic research or practice. 4) contribute to bettercoordination of currently fragmented health economic research in Europe. This will improve the competitive position ofEuropean health economic research. 5) serve as a model for joint doctorate programmes in health economics in Europe.This will drive the development of PhD programmes in health economics in Europe, which currently are scarce.To address these aims, the research programme consists of research clusters: (a) effectiveness & safety, (b) efficiency, (c)access & equitability, and (d) acceptability (WP2-5). Clusters also define secondments and joint research activities of onecluster. Across clusters, scientific training courses, soft-skill-courses and research-in-progress workshops will provide newskills and ensure interaction and exchange between PhD fellows (WP6). The strong participation of the non-academic sectorin courses, workshops, acting as hosts, providing research data, or acting as practice mentors for PhD fellows will ensuretransfer of research into practice (WP7).

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