Health Economics SIG

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Health Economics SIG Mission and Strategy
Broad Aims

1. Mission
The EGS HE-SIG promotes knowledge, understanding and decision making regarding outcomes and costs of glaucoma care.
2. Values - What is important for EGS HE-SIG?
2.1. Wellbeing of glaucoma patients
2.2. Appropriate balance between the possibilities of care and available resources.
3. Vision
The EGS HE-SIG promotes improvement of glaucoma care in Europe by trying to identify and apply the best method on a country wise basis to deliver good quality care at a sustainable cost.
4. Strategies for improvement of European glaucoma care

4.1. Improvement of knowledge by promoting high quality HE research
- Goals: HE-SIG guides to
1) Ask important questions.
2) Set up systematic reviews on selected research questions
3) Fulfil criteria for high quality research protocols and reports. - Actions: HE-SIG agrees on
1) Quality criteria (available on the EGS web) to design studies and evaluate protocols and published reports
2) Definitions of key parameters (e.g. glaucoma, visual disability) and the best measures of outcome (e.g. visually disabled cases, staging based on bilateral visual fields, patient-oriented outcomes)
3) How to collect data of current care (including costs) - Measures: Number of high quality study protocols and publications per year.
4.2. Improvement of understanding by education
- Goals: Promotion of explicit, fair allocation of resources both in eye care and research
Teaching and learning critical evaluation of economic evidence
- Actions: Systematic training of the European ophthalmologist, researchers and residents to use and apply the agreed criteria (EGS meetings, courses and web site)
- Measures: Testing knowledge before and after the meetings and using web exams.
4.3. Improvement of decision making by trying to make practitioners and regulators to adopt cost-effective practices
- Goals:
1) Glaucoma induced visual disability decreases (e.g. 1 % per year)
2) Variation of practice patterns decreases. - Actions: Research targeted also to change in behaviour is encouraged.
- Measure: Number of high quality studies and protocols producing data on the behavioural change.

 
Anja Tuulonen