Ayooluwa O Douglas, Senthujan Senkaiahliyan, Caroline A Bulstra, Carol Mita, Che L Reddy, Rifat Atun
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Abstract
Importance: Health systems worldwide are facing several contextual challenges threatening their sustainability, including aging populations with complex health care needs, workforce shortages, and persistent health disparities, which are driving health care costs. Optimizing health systems to respond to contextual challenges and offer quality care for all requires innovative frameworks like value-based health care (VBHC) and high-value health systems (HVHS) frameworks that focus on improving patient outcomes while minimizing costs.
Objective: To examine how value-based initiatives have been introduced in health systems worldwide.
Evidence review: A comprehensive literature search was conducted across MEDLINE/PubMed, Embase, Health Business Elite, and Web of Science Core Collection. The search included controlled vocabulary terms relevant to VBHC and covered publications between January 1, 2007, and July 7, 2023. After title and abstract screening, followed by full-text review, experimental, observational, and case studies that examined the implementation of the VBHC framework or its elements were included. Articles that focused solely on insurance, cost-effectiveness analysis, theoretical models without implementation, nonempirical studies (eg, reviews, commentaries), and gray literature (eg, news articles) were excluded.
Findings: Of 11 948 articles initially identified for potential inclusion, the final sample included 50 initiatives, with 47 from high-income countries, 2 from upper-middle-income countries, and 1 from a lower-middle-income country. The review revealed that VBHC adoption remains confined to the departmental or institutional level, with few examples of systemwide or national implementation. Although many initiatives integrated various elements of the VBHC framework and components of the HVHS model, none achieved full implementation of all aspects.
Conclusions and relevance: This scoping review showed that since its formal introduction in 2006, VBHC has been widely recognized as a strategy for improving health system performance, but large-scale adoption will require a strategic shift toward integrating value-based components at national and regional levels. These findings highlight the need for research on effective implementation models, particularly in lower-resource settings, to guide policymakers and health system leaders in scaling VBHC and transitioning toward HVHS.
重要性:世界各地的卫生系统正面临着威胁其可持续性的若干背景挑战,包括具有复杂卫生保健需求的人口老龄化、劳动力短缺和持续存在的卫生差距,这些都在推高卫生保健成本。优化卫生系统以应对环境挑战并为所有人提供优质护理,需要创新框架,如基于价值的卫生保健(VBHC)和高价值卫生系统(HVHS)框架,这些框架侧重于改善患者的治疗效果,同时最大限度地降低成本。目的:研究全球卫生系统如何引入基于价值的举措。证据回顾:在MEDLINE/PubMed、Embase、Health Business Elite和Web of Science Core Collection中进行了全面的文献检索。搜索包括与VBHC相关的受控词汇,涵盖2007年1月1日至2023年7月7日之间的出版物。在标题和摘要筛选之后,全文审查,实验、观察和案例研究检查了VBHC框架或其要素的实施。仅关注保险、成本效益分析、没有实施的理论模型、非实证研究(如评论、评论)和灰色文献(如新闻文章)的文章被排除在外。研究结果:在最初确定可能纳入的11 948篇文章中,最终样本包括50项倡议,其中47项来自高收入国家,2项来自中高收入国家,1项来自中低收入国家。审查表明,VBHC的采用仍然局限于部门或机构一级,很少有全系统或国家实施的例子。尽管许多倡议整合了VBHC框架的各个要素和HVHS模型的组成部分,但没有一个倡议实现了所有方面的全面实施。结论和相关性:这项范围审查表明,自2006年正式推出以来,VBHC已被广泛认为是改善卫生系统绩效的一项战略,但大规模采用将需要在国家和区域层面进行战略转变,以整合基于价值的组成部分。这些发现强调需要研究有效的实施模式,特别是在资源较低的环境中,以指导决策者和卫生系统领导者扩大VBHC并向HVHS过渡。
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JAMA Health Forum is an international, peer-reviewed, online, open access journal that addresses health policy and strategies affecting medicine, health, and health care. The journal publishes original research, evidence-based reports, and opinion about national and global health policy. It covers innovative approaches to health care delivery and health care economics, access, quality, safety, equity, and reform.
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