Evidence for Sustainability of Health Care: increasing value, reducing waste

As the sustainability of national health services is a global challenge and an evidence-based, cost-conscious, patient-centered and high value health care is the main goal of every national health service, the Conference aims to promote an evidence-based approach to sustainability of health services, where evidence should inform all health care decisions at every level (patients, health care professionals and policy-makers) and cuts-based programs to contain costs should be replaced by an evidence-informed strategy to reduce waste and increase value of health care.

The final program of the Conference is now released:

Keynote lectures

  • Overdiagnosis: the growing epidemic of the 21st century - Paul Glasziou (Bond University)
  • Transforming health care for a sustainable future: from evidence to value - Sir Muir Gray (University of Oxford)
  • Evidence-based Medicine: from crisis to renaissance - Trisha Greenhalgh (University of Oxford)
  • Well-targeted primary prevention of cardiovascular disease: an underused high-value intervention? - Rod Jackson (The University of Auckland)
  • Bringing best evidence to the point of care: toward a digital ecosystem - Per Vandvik  (University of Oslo)
  • Overtreatment due to biased evidence synthesis: the case of thrombolysis in acute stroke - Brian Alper (EBSCO Health)
  • Reducing waste in health care: GIMBE framework for disinvestment - Nino Cartabellotta (GIMBE Foundation)

Oral presentations

45 selected presentations on evidence generation, synthesis, presentation and translation, on education to EBP / EBHC and on increasing value and reducing waste of healthcare.

Pre-conference workshops

  • Making sense of results: statistics for the terrified - Amanda Burls (City University of London)
  • Want to SHARE IT? Testing decision aids linked to guidelines for use in clinical consultations - Per Vandvik (University of Oslo)

Workshops HOW TO...

  • ... get better value healthcare (#tenquestionsaboutvalue) - Sir Muir Gray (University of Oxford)
  • ... use the GATE frame for critical appraisal? - Rod Jackson (The University of Auckland)
  • ... develop and publish a trustworthy evidence summary and recommendation through the MAGIC platform - Per Vandvik (University of Oslo)
  • ... apply theory in implementation of evidence in healthcare - Susanne Bernhardsson (Linköping University)
  • Delegates of all health professions and disciplines are expected to attend from all 5 continents: participants will include professional societies, health researchers, clinicians, decision‐makers, managers and students.

Registrations still open, few places available: www.ebhc.org/registration

Further information can be found at www.ebhc.org or by emailing: 2015@ebhc.org