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The results obtained in the case studies carried out in the Hospital Universitari i Politècnic La Fe (Valencia, Spain) will be presented as oral communications at the Conference on Health Economics to be held next May in Bilbao (Spain).
As part of the 7th Panhellenic Congress of Management, Economics and Policy on Health, which took place in Athens last December, the preliminary results of the work done in the WP3 of the Managed Outcomes project were presented. Paul Lillrank was the responsible of introducing the objectives and methodology of the project. Torkki Paulus, Paul Forte and Raquel Faubel presented the case studies developed in the six countries which participate in the study. Finally, Uwe Konerding was the person in charge of presenting the most relevant aspects of the survey to patients within the WP3.
Managed Outcomes project appreciates the invitation of the 7th Panhellenic Congress of Management, Economics and Policy on Health to disseminate the results of the European project.
Next week, Athens and the Greece National School of Public Health will host the winter General Assembly of the Managed Outcomes project. Partners from eight different European countries will get together to discuss the main results of the research on the case studies for the Inventory of European practices in healthcare.
The Managed Outcomes Conference Session will take place on Thursday 15th December 2011 at 13:00 – 15:00 hours, and is organized within the framework of the 7th Panhellenic Conference of Health Management, Health Economics and Health Policy in the Megaron Athens International Conference Centre (http://www.maicc.gr/en).
September 2011
Next Project Meeting, General Assembly and Dissemination Workshop will take place in Athens in early December, where the results of the test cases will be presented and the first comparison of European practices will be analyzed.
