OECD Reviews of Health Care Quality: Denmark 2013 : Raising Standards
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
This review of health care quality in Denmark examines policies related to quality and includes chapters covering primary and integrated care, hospital specialisation and equity. It finds that with a dense array of disease- and service-focused quality initiatives, and with information on the quality of care stored in separate data repositories, Denmark needs to create effective links and synergies between them to drive up quality in the healthcare system as a whole, rather than in disconnected elements. Primary care will be central in meeting Denmark’s future healthcare challenges of an ageing population with multiple chronic conditions. Therefore, an urgent need is to create a national vision of how a modernised primary care sector will fulfill this new coordination role. National standards, clinical guidelines, accreditation of clinical pathways and targeted financial incentive programmes could support this role, along with more transparent and formalised continual professional development. To facilitate quality improvement from the ambitious hospital rationalisation, Denmark should collect and disseminate data on the quality of individual physicians as well as the hospitals. Undergraduate training and medical research should be reviewed in light of the new service arrangements. Close surveillance will be needed to monitor whether certain patient groups forego healthcare because travel times to providers are too long. Limited data availability complicate Denmark’s ability to monitor its commitment to equitable healthcare. There is an urgent need for renewed action to tackle risk factors of chronic ill-health that disproportionately affect low-income groups. Better information on the impact of user-charges on unmet need in low-income groups is needed.
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2013
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Institutions: | OECD (contributor) |
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Paris : OECD Publishing |
Subject: | Gesundheitsversorgung | Health care | Dänemark | Denmark | Medizinische Versorgung | 2013 |
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Online Resource
Extent: | Online-Ressource (183 p.) ill. |
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Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Language: | English |
ISBN: | 978-92-64-19113-6 |
Other identifiers: | 10.1787/9789264191136-en [DOI] |
Classification: | Gesundheitswesen: Allgemeines |
Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012449055
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