Performance Anxiety and PROMs
On February 25th, members from the VALHUE study team attended the 26th annual CHSPR health policy conference titled “Performance Anxiety”, in Vancouver, BC. The conference featured discussions about the current state of affairs of performance measurement in Canada and its impact on healthcare system change. Included in that was the role patients play in engaging in research through the use of patient reported outcome measures (PROMs) and patient reported experience measures (PREMs). Read more
VALHUE
There is little understanding of whether shorter wait times are associated with better clinical outcomes, and whether policy-linked initiatives to increase access to surgery are associated with consistent changes in health improvement. The literature regarding the effect of wait times on health is significantly under-developed. VALHUE aims to address this gap in the literature.