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Atlas VPM, coordinated by IACS, is recognized by the Spanish Ministry of Health and Social Services and Equality as a privileged source (“Registro de Utilidad”) for the National Health System.
Three IACS researchers track for the OMS the health policies against COVID in Spain
They search, check and classify all the information related to how this situation is being addressed in Spain. COVID-19 Health System Response Monitor
Atlas of Variations in Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery. Data 2017
This atlas describes the variability in the use of different orthopaedic surgery procedures: knee arthroplasty, hip arthroplasty, and arthrodesis, laminectomy/discectomy and back surgery.
New platform COVID-19 Health System Response Monitor
The COVID-19 Health Systems Response Monitor is an innovative platform which will collect and organize up-to-date information and enable cross-country analyses and comparisons of responses to the pandemic, as well as mapping wider public health initiatives, across the European Region.
Access to the full paper: Factors underlying the growth of hospital expenditure in Spain
This work describes the evolution of hospital expenditure between 2003 and 2015, and analyses, using time series methodology, whether the economic shocks of these years varied the relationship that the determining factors of expenditure.
Atlas VPM | March 2020- We have a new Atlas. Lower Value Care. 2017 data
We have a new Atlas VPM: Lower Value Care with 2017 data
New Atlas on Variations in Lower Value Care. 2017 Update
This Atlas has been funded through the project “Preparation of a Divestment Strategy for the National Health System Based on Monitoring Unjustified Variations in Lower Value Care” (Healthcare Research Fund PI12/01884, Carlos III Health Institute), by the Research Network on Health Services in Chronic Conditions (REDISSEC RD12/0001/0004), the Institute for Health Services Research (IISS) and the Instituto Aragonés de Ciencias de la Salud.
New paper: Factors underlying the growth of hospital expenditure in Spain in aperiod of unexpected economic shocks: A dynamic analysis onadministrative data
Enrique Bernal-Delgadoa, Micaela Comendeiro-Maaløe, Manuel Ridao-Lópeza, Andreu Sansó Rosselló. Factors underlying the growth of hospital expenditure in Spain in a period of unexpected economic shocks: A dynamic analysis on administrative data. Health Policy (2020). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2020.02.001.
New paper: Acknowledging the role of patient heterogeneity in hospital outcome reporting: Mortality after acute myocardial infarction
Micaela Comendeiro-Maaløe, Francisco Estupiñán-Romero, Lau Caspar Thygesen,Céu Mateus, Juan Merlo, Enrique Bernal-Delgado, on behalf of the ECHO consortium. Acknowledging the role of patient heterogeneity in hospital outcome reporting: Mortality after acute myocardial infarction in five European countries. Plos One Febrero 2020. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0228425