Integrating clinical registries and administrative data

For evidence-based health care performance evaluation: Experiences in EU and OECD projects

Groups related to this event

Centre for Health Systems and Safety Research

Event date

Friday, 4 March 2016

Speaker

Professor Fabrizio Carinci, University of Surrey.

Abstract

Health care planning at all levels is based on the objective analysis of all relevant dimensions of systems performance. Audit and benchmarking increasingly need standardisation and strengthened information infrastructure. Several international experiences addressed best practices, targeted methodologies and new challenges to be resolved.

In his talk, Professor Fabrizio Carinci will present recent developments in EU and OECD projects, including:

• Revised OECD performance evaluation framework and new standardised definitions of selected quality indicators, with a particular application on amputation rates in diabetes.
• The role of clinical registries in the accurate construction of such indicators, with a particular focus on diabetes and new approaches implemented in the EU projects BIRO and EUBIROD.
• Methodological challenges of risk adjustment, national data linkage and international data exchange, with a particular focus on the OECD hospital performance benchmarking project.
• 'Essential levels of health information' in the EU Bridge Health project.

Through practical examples drawn from his direct experience in Italian Regions and abroad (EU projects and the OECD), Professor Fabrizio Carinci will discuss the state of play and actors involved in the international debate, drawing on potential avenues for mutual collaboration.

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Speaker profile

Fabrizio Carinci, (Italian Australian), is Professor of Health Systems and Policy at the School of Health Sciences, University of Surrey and a Member of the OECD Health Care Quality Indicators Expert Group and Advisory Panel on Health Information infrastructure.

An international expert in biostatistics and health information for policy, his background includes 25 years of experience at the interface of policy and the academia. He has worked for various organisations, including world class Universities (Harvard, Monash, Perugia and Surrey), research institutes (Mario Negri), government bodies (Italian Ministry of Health, National Agency of Regional Health Services and several Italian Regions) and international organisations (OECD, WHO Europe, and the European Commission).

An early pioneer of privacy-enhanced, distributed statistical meta-analysis of linked health databases, he has conceived an original approach specifically developed and implemented in the field of diabetes in the EU projects BIRO and EUBIROD (2005-2012), currently extended within BRIDGE HEALTH (2015-2017).