University of York Centre for Health Economics

Analysis, data collection and reporting activities

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The Centre for Health Economics team will be involved in

• Data collection from the pilot sites
• Data analysis
• Reporting on the cost and effectiveness of information prescribing and different approaches to its delivery

Data collection

As the projects begin to develop methods for delivering information prescriptions and pilot the scripts, the team will be in touch with you to discuss the sorts of data that might be routinely collected when scripts are being issued. These approaches will start at the end of May and continue throughout June. The aim is to agree a short data collection proforma for each pilot, that can be used monthly, or at appropriate intervals thereafter. Towards the end of the pilot there will be some further one-off data collection on the resources used by the pilots to provide more detail on the likely costs of information prescribing.

Data analysis

The York team will synthesise data from a variety of sources, including the patient, carer and professional surveys, the more qualitative material collected by OPM and the material collected by York on volume and activity, in order to produce estimates of costs and, where possible, the benefits and effects of different models of information prescribing.

In the relatively short time scale of the pilot it is unlikely that there will be discernable changes in clinical outcomes, but the carer and patient (or client) surveys should allow us to establish the relative effectiveness of different approaches in terms of both helping people become better informed and identify further sources of information and help.

Reporting on the cost and effectiveness of information prescribing and different approaches to its delivery

The York and OPM teams will be working together to examine the different ways in which information prescribing can be interpreted and delivered, and the relative effectiveness of each approach. In the reporting and analysis they will look for common patterns and processes between sites in order to construct and evaluate different models of information prescribing.

Their aim is to explore how the costs and effects vary with differences in factors such as: the needs of the people receiving the information, the nature and format of the scripts, alternative models of prescribing and dispensing, the role of patient support groups and differences in the use of local and national IT systems. Both OPM and York teams will focus on the questions: what works best for different groups of carers patients and clients and how this can be most efficiently delivered?

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