Data Science for Health Services and Policy Research

PUBLICACIÓN MÁS RELEVANTE

Ester Angulo-Pueyo, Micaela Comendeiro-Maaløe, Francisco Estupiñán-Romero, Natalia Martínez-Lizaga, Manuel Ridao-López, Javier González-Galindo, Ramón Launa-Garcés, Miriam Seral-Rodríguez, Enrique Bernal-Delgado* and on behalf of Atlas VPM group Atlas VPM: two decades informing on unwarranted variations in health care in Spain Res Health
Serv Reg 1, 5 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43999-022-00005-3

OTRAS PUBLICACIONES DE INTERÉS

Luca Lorenzoni, Alberto Marino, Zeynep Or, Carl Rudolf Blankart, Kosta Shatrov, Walter Wodchis, Nils Janlov, Jose F. Figueroa, Nicholas Bowden, Enrique Bernal-Delgado, Irene Papanicolas, Why the US spends more treating high-need high-cost patients: a comparative study of pricing and utilization of care in six high-income countries, Health policy, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2022.12.004

Castaño-Riera Eusebio, Ridao Manuel, Librero Julian, Martínez-Lizaga Natalia, Comendeiro-Maaloe Micaela, Angulo-Pueyo Ester, Peiro Salvador, Bernal-Delgado Enrique. Revisiting systematic geographical variations in tonsils surgery in children in the Spanish National Health System: spatio temporal ecological study on hospital administrative data. BMJ
Open. 12. e064009 (2022). https://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2022-064009

González-García, J., Estupiñán-Romero, F., Tellería-Orriols, C. et al. Coping with interoperability in the development of a federated research infrastructure: achievements, challenges and recommendations from the JA-InfAct. Arch Public Health 79, 221 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13690-021-00731-z

Carl Rudolf Blankart PhD, Kees van Gool PhD, MEc, Irene Papanicolas PhD, Enrique Bernal-Delgado MD, PhD, Nicholas Bowden MCom, Francisco Estupiñán-Romero MD, MPH, Robin Gauld PhD, Hannah Knight PhD, Olukorede Abiona PhD, Kristen Riley BA, Andrew J. Schoenfeld MD, MSc, Kosta Shatrov MSc, Walter P. Wodchis PhD, Jose F. Figueroa MD, MPH, on behalf of the ICCONIC. International comparison of spending and utilization at the end of life for hip fracture patients. Health Serv Res. 2021 Sept 07

Or Z, Shatrov K, Penneau A, Wodchis W, Abiona O, Blankart CR, Bowden N, Bernal-Delgado E, Knight H, Lorenzoni L, Marino A, Papanicolas I, Riley K, Pellet L, Estupiñán-Romero F, van Gool K, Figueroa JF. Within and across country variations in treatment of patients with heart failure and diabetes. Health Serv Res. 2021 Aug 19. doi: 10.1111/1475-6773.13854. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34409601.

Papanicolas I, Figueroa JF, Schoenfeld AJ, Riley K, Abiona O, Arvin M, Atsma F, Bernal-Delgado E, Bowden N, Blankart CR, Deeny S, Estupiñán-Romero F, Gauld R, Haywood P, Janlov N, Knight H, Lorenzoni L, Marino A, Or Z, Penneau A, Shatrov K, Stafford M, van de Galien O, van Gool K, Wodchis W, Jha AK. Differences in health care spending and utilization among older frail adults in high-income countries: ICCONIC hip fracture persona. Health Serv Res. 2021 Aug 14. doi: 10.1111/1475-6773.13739. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34390254

Papanicolas I, Riley K, Abiona O, Arvin M, Atsma F, Bernal-Delgado E, Bowden N, Blankart CR, Deeny S, Estupiñán-Romero F, Gauld R, Haywood P, Janlov N, Knight H, Lorenzoni L, Marino A, Or Z, Penneau A, Schoenfeld AJ, Shatrov K, Stafford M, van de Galien O, van Gool K, Wodchis W, Jha AK, Figueroa JF. Differences in health outcomes for high-need high-cost patients across high-income countries. Health Serv Res. 2021 Aug 11. doi: 10.1111/1475-6773.13735. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34378796

Figueroa JF, Papanicolas I, Riley K, Abiona O, Arvin M, Atsma F, Bernal-Delgado E, Bowden N, Blankart CR, Deeny S, Estupiñán-Romero F, Gauld R, Haywood P, Janlov N, Knight H, Lorenzoni L, Marino A, Or Z, Penneau A, Shatrov K, van de Galien O, van Gool K, Wodchis W, Jha AK. International comparison of health spending and utilization among people with complex multimorbidity. Health Serv Res. 2021 Aug 5. doi: 10.1111/1475-6773.13708. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34350586

Keys MT, Serra-Burriel M, Martínez-Lizaga N, Pellisé M, Balaguer F, Sánchez A, Bernal-Delgado E, Castells A. Population-based organized screening by faecal immunochemical testing and colorectal cancer mortality: a natural experiment. Int J Epidemiol. 2021 Mar 3;50(1):143-155. doi: 10.1093/ije/dyaa166. PMID: 33211822

Ester Angulo-Pueyo; Natalia Martínez-Lizaga; Enrique Bernal-Delgado; En representación del grupo Atlas VPM. Amplias variaciones sistemáticas en hospitalizaciones potencialmente evitables en pacientes crónicos: estudio ecológico sobre zonas básicas de salud y áreas sanitarias. Rev Clin Esp. 2020

Gonzalez Garcia J, Telleria-Orriols C, Estupinan Romero F R and Bernal-Delgado E. Construction of Empirical Care Pathways Process Models from Multiple Real-World Datasets. IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics. Febrero 2020

Enrique Bernal-Delgado, Micaela Comendeiro-Maaløe, Manuel Ridao-López, Andreu Sansó Rosselló. Factors underlying the growth of hospital expenditure in Spain in a period of unexpected economic shocks: A dynamic analysis on administrative data. Health Policy (2020). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2020.02.001

Ferrán Catalá-López, Lisa Caulley, Manuel Ridao, Brian Hutton, Don Husereau, Michael F Drummond, Adolfo Alonso-Arroyo, Manuel Pardo-Fernández, Enrique Bernal-Delgado, Ricard Meneu, Rafael Tabarés-Seisdedos, José Ramón Repullo, David Moher. Reproducible research practices, openness and transparency in health economic evaluations: study protocol for a cross-sectional comparative analysis. BMJ Open 2020;10:e034463. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-034463

Micaela Comendeiro-Maaløe, Francisco Estupiñán-Romero, Lau Caspar Thygesen,Céu Mateus, Juan Merlo, Enrique Bernal-Delgado, on behalf of the ECHO consortium. Acknowledging the role of patient heterogeneity in hospital outcome reporting: Mortality after acute myocardial infarction in five European countries. PLoS ONE 15(2): e0228425. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0228425

A challenge to all. A primer on inter-country differences of high-need, high-cost patients. Tanke MAC, Feyman Y, Bernal-Delgado E, Deeny SR, Imanaka Y, Jeurissen P, Lange L, Pimperl A, Sasaki N, Schull M, Wammes JJG, Wodchis WP, Meyer GS. PLoS One. 2019 Jun 19;14(6):e0217353. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0217353. eCollection 2019.

Endorsement of guidelines for reporting economic evaluation studies by Spanish biomedical journals. Catalá-López F, Ridao M, Bernal-Delgado E, Moher D, Repullo JR. Gac Sanit. 2019 May – Jun;33(3):255-258. doi: 10.1016/j.gaceta.2018.12.006. Epub 2019 Mar 14. Spanish.

Public-private partnerships in the Spanish National Health System: The reversion of the Alzira model. Comendeiro-Maaløe M, Ridao-López M, Gorgemans S, Bernal-Delgado E. Health Policy. 2019 Apr;123(4):408-411. doi: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2019.01.012. Epub 2019 Feb 2.

A comparative performance analysis of a renowned public private partnership for health care provision in Spain between 2003 and 2015. Comendeiro-Maaløe M, Ridao-López M, Gorgemans S, Bernal-Delgado E. Health Policy. 2019 Apr;123(4):412-418. doi: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2018.11.009. Epub 2018 Nov 27.

Enrique Bernal Delgado; Sandra García Armesto; Juan Oliva; Fernando Ignacio Sanchez Martinez; José Ramón Repullo; Luz María Peña Longobardo; Manuel Ridao López; Cristina Hernández Quevedo. Spain: Health System Review. Health systems in transition. 20 – 2, pp. 1 – 179. European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, LSE Health, 16/05/2018

Manuel Ridao-López, Micaela Comendeiro-Maaløe, Natalia Martínez-Lizaga and Enrique Bernal-Delgado. Evolution of public hospitals expenditure by healthcare area in the Spanish National Health System: the determinants to pay attention to. BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:696. DOI: 10.1186/s12913-018-3445-7

Sophie Gorgemans; Micaela Comendeiro Maaloe; Manuel Ridao López; Enrique Bernal Delgado. Quality and technical efficiency do not evolve hand in hand in Spanish hospitals: Observational study with administrative data. PLoS One. 13 – 8, PLOS, 02/08/2018. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0201466.

Gianluca Quaglio; Josep Figueras; Domenico Mantoan; Amr Dawood; Theodoros Karapiperis; Caroline Costongs; Enrique Bernal Delgado. An overview of future EU health systems. An insight into governance, primary care, data collection and citizens’ participation. Journal of Public Health. Oxford, England, 26/03/2018. DOI: 10.1093/pubmed/fdy054

Enrique Bernal Delgado; Francisco Estupiñán Romero. A data infrastructure for the assessment of health care performance: lessons from the BRIDGE-health project. Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique. 76, pp. 6. 2018. ISSN 0778-7367. DOI: 10.1186/s13690-017-0245-1. PMID: 29416858

Nils Gutacker; Karen Bloor; Richard Cookson; Chris P Gale; Alan Maynard; Domenico Pagano; José Pomar; Enrique Bernal-Delgado. Hospital Surgical Volumes and Mortality after Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting: Using International Comparisons to Determine a Safe Threshold. Health services research. 52-2,pp.863-878. 04/2017. ISSN 1475-6773

Burgun A, Bernal-Delgado E, Kuchinke W, van Staa T, Cunningham J, Lettieri E, Mazzali C, Oksen D, Estupiñan F, Barone A, Chène G. Health Data for Public Health: Towards New Ways of Combining Data Sources to Support Research Efforts in Europe. Yearbook of Medical Informatics. 2017 Aug;26(01):235-40.

Angulo-Pueyo E, Ridao-López M, Martínez-Lizaga N, García-Armesto S, Peiró S, Bernal-Delgado E. Factors associated with hospitalisations in chronic conditions deemed avoidable: ecological study in the Spanish healthcare system. BMJ Open. 2017 Feb 24;7(2):e011844. PMID: 28237952

Librero J, Ibañez B, Martínez-Lizaga N, Peiró S, Bernal-Delgado E. Spanish Atlas of Medical Practice Variation Research Group. Applying spatio-temporal models to assess variations across health care areas and regions: Lessons from the decentralized Spanish National Health System. PLoS One. 2017 Feb 6;12(2):e0170480. PMID: 28166233

Julián Librero, Berta Ibañez-Beroiz, Salvador Peiró, M. Ridao-López, Clara L. Rodríguez-Bernal, Francisco J. Gómez-Romero, Enrique Bernal-Delgado, and the Spanish Atlas of Medical Practice Variation Research Group. Trends and area variations in Potentially Preventable Admissions for COPD in Spain (2002-2013): a significant decline and convergence between areas. BMC Health Serv Res. 2016; 16: 367 doi: 10.1186/s12913-016-1624-y

E.Angulo-Pueyo, N.Martínez-Lizaga, M.Ridao-López, S.García-Armesto, E.Bernal-Delgado. Evolución de las hospitalizaciones potencialmente evitables por condiciones crónicas en España. Gac Sanit. 2016;30:52-4 – Vol. 30 Núm.1 DOI: 10.1016/j.gaceta.2015.10.008

Catalá-López F, Ridao-López M, Alonso-Arroyo A, García-Altés A, Cameron C, González-Bermejo D, Aleixandre-Benavent R, Bernal-Delgado E, Peiró S, Tabarés-Seisdedos R, Hutton B. The quality of reporting methods and results of cost-effectiveness analyses in Spain: a methodological systematic review. Syst Rev. 2016 Jan 7;5:6. doi: 10.1186/s13643-015-0181-5

Auffray C, Balling R, Barroso I, Bencze L, Benson M, Bergeron J, Bernal-Delgado E, et al Making sense of big data in health research: Towards an EU action plan. Genome Med. 2016 Jun 23;8(1):71. doi: 10.1186/s13073-016-0323-y.

Bernal-Delgado E, Ridao-Lopez M, Garcia-Armesto S (in press). Medical Practice Variations in Elective Surgery. In: Sobolev B (Series ed), Johnson A, Stukel T (eds). Health Services Research Series. Medical Practice Variations. Springer, New York.

Campillo-Artero C, Garcia-Armesto S, Bernal-Delgado E.The merry-go-round of approval, pricing and reimbursement of drugs against the Hepatitis C virus infection in Spain. Health policy (Amsterdam, Netherlands).DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2016.07.005

Bernal-Delgado E, Christiansen T, Bloor K, Mateus C, Yazbeck AM, Munck J, Bremner J; ECHO Consortium. ECHO: health care performance assessment in several European health systems. Eur J Public Health. 2015 Feb;25 Suppl 1:3-7.

Thygesen LC, Baixauli-Pérez C, Librero-López J, Martínez-Lizaga N, Ridao-López M, Bernal-Delgado E; ECHO Consortium. Comparing variation across European countries: building geographical areas to provide sounder estimates. Eur J Public Health. 2015 Feb;25 Suppl 1:8-14.

Cookson R, Gutacker N, Garcia-Armesto S, Angulo-Pueyo E, Christiansen T, Bloor K, Bernal-Delgado E. Socioeconomic inequality in hip replacement in four European countries from 2002 to 2009-area-level analysis of hospital data. Eur J Public Health. 2015 Feb;25Suppl 1:21-7.

Gutacker N, Bloor K, Cookson R, Garcia-Armesto S, Bernal-Delgado E. Comparing hospital performance within and across countries: an illustrative study of coronary artery bypass graft surgery in England and Spain. Eur J Public Health. 2015 Feb;25 Suppl 1:28-34

Thygesen LC, Christiansen T, Garcia-Armesto S, Angulo-Pueyo E, Martínez-Lizaga N, Bernal-Delgado E; ECHO Consortium. Potentially avoidable hospitalizations in five European countries in 2009 and time trends from 2002 to 2009 based on administrative data. Eur J Public Health. 2015 Feb;25 Suppl 1:35-43

García-Armesto S, Angulo-Pueyo E, Martínez-Lizaga N, Mateus C, Joaquim I, Bernal-Delgado E; ECHO Consortium. Potential of geographical variation analysis for realigning providers to value-based care. ECHO case study on lower-value indications of C-section in five European countries. Eur J Public Health.2015 Feb;25 Suppl 1:44-51.

Ibañez-Beroiz B, Librero L, Bernal-Delgado E, García-Armesto S, Villanueva-Ferragud S, Peiró S. Joint spatial modelling to identify shared patterns among chronic related potentially preventable hospitalizations. BMC Medical Research Methodology 2014, 14:74.

Bernal-Delgado E, García-Armesto S, Peiró S on behalf of the Atlas VPM group. Atlas of Variations in Medical Practice: the Spanish National Health Service under scrutiny. Health Policy 2014; 114(1): 15-30

García-Armesto S, Campillo-Artero C, Bernal-Delgado E. Disinvestment in the age of cost-cutting sound and fury. Tools for the Spanish National Health System. Health Policy 2013; 10(2-3): 180-5.

Bernal-Delgado E, García-Armesto S, Martínez-Lizaga N, Beltrán-Peribañez J, Peiró-Moreno S. Should Policy-makers and managers trust PSI? An empirical validation study of Five Patient Safety Indicators in a National Health Service. BMC Medical Research Methodology 2012; 12:19

Librero J, Peiró S, Leutscher E, Merlo J, Bernal-Delgado E, Ridao M, Martínez N Sanfélix-Gimeno G Timing of surgery for hip fracture and in-hospital mortality. A retrospective population-based cohort study in the Spanish National Health System. BMC Health Services Research 2012; 12:15

Ibañez B, Librero J, Peiró S, Bernal-Delgado E. Shared component modelling as an alternative to assess geographical variations in medical practice: gender inequalities in hospital admissions for chronic diseases. BMC Methods in Medical Research 2011; 11:172.

Ridao-López M, García-Armesto S, Abadía-Taira MB, Peiró-Moreno S, Bernal-Delgado E Income Level and Regional Policies, Underlying Factors Associated With Unwarranted Variations in Conservative Breast Cancer Surgery in Spain. BMC Cancer 2011, 11:145.

Bernal-Delgado E, Martos C, Martinez N, Chirlaque MD, Márquez M, Navarro C et al. Is hospital discharge administrative data an appropriate source of information for cancer registries purposes? Some insights from four Spanish Registries. BMC Health Serv Res. 2010; 10:9.

Ibáñez B, Librero J, Bernal-Delgado E, Peiró S, López-Valcarcel BG, Martínez N, Aizpuru F. Is there much variation in variation? Revisiting statistics of small area variation in health services research. BMC Health Serv Res. 2009; 9:60.