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The impact of health care research: a framework and methodology to measure its social and economic value for European and national policy making.

Groenewegen, P. The impact of health care research: a framework and methodology to measure its social and economic value for European and national policy making. European Journal of Public Health: 2013, 23(Suppl. 1), p. 98. Abstract. 6th European Public Health Conference: Health in Europe: are we there yet? Learning from the past, building the future. 13-16 November 2013, Brussel.
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Partly due to the economic recession, health research as a whole is being seen more and more as a lever for economic growth through patentable technological advances and exploitable intellectual properties. Health care research, however, rarely result in patents or products, as is the case with biomedical research. Its application and societal value lies far more in supporting policy decisions, both at governmental and organizational level, for example when it comes to policy relevant topics such as the quality and safety of health care, the financial sustainability and productivity of health systems, innovations in health care organisation and delivery or the effectiveness and efficiency with which health care interventions are used. Methods: On behalf of the working group, we will first clarify how the concept of impact measurement is often used, and what the pros and cons are of these different approaches for the area of health care research. We will also apply the model to an example study to show how it can be used to determine whether current research on health care provision is having impact on policy decisions being taken in times of financial and economic difficulty. Results/conclusions: To do better justice to the diversity in research disciplines as well as topic areas, the working group will develop an alternative framework model, which links to what is being used in other areas, while also keeping an eye for the particularities of these types of research. At the workshop we will present the most suitable frameworks to measure impact as well as concrete indicators in order to monitor and compare performance of projects, institutes or research programmes.