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Knowing What Works in Health Care: A Roadmap for the Nation
Alliance for Health ReformApril 4, 2008Wilhelmine Miller, MS, PhDGWU SPHHS
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Charge to Committee: To Recommend…
• Approach to identifying highly effective clinical services
• Process to evaluate evidence about clinical effectiveness
• Organizational framework for using evidence reports to make recommendations
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Outside Committee Scope
• Considerations of cost, specifically use of cost-effectiveness analyses
• Organizational locus of any new program
• Recommendations regarding funding for clinical effectiveness research or program
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Evidence-Based Evidence-Based Practice Centers Centers
Proprietary firmsProprietary firms
•USPSTFUSPSTF•ACPACP•NIHNIH•BCBC•CMSCMS•ACC/AHAACC/AHA
Body of Body of evidenceevidence
PolicyPolicy•Practice guidelinesPractice guidelines•Performance measuresPerformance measures•Insurance coverageInsurance coverage
SystematicSystematic reviewreview
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Strengths of U.S. Activities and Capacity
• Well-developed systematic review methods
• A network of professionals skilled in systematic reviews
• Pluralistic, close to the ground
• Some excellent models for transparent, rigorous guideline development
• Influential users of guidelines (e.g., coverage decisions, performance measures)
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Problems with the Status Quo
• Extensive duplication of efforts by insurers and private groups
• Potential conflicts of interest in assessing evidence and promulgating guidelines
• Systematic reviews and guidelines often lack scientific rigor
• Difficult for users to see the connection between the evidence and clinical recommendations
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Duplication of Efforts
Of 20 services*
- 14 evaluated by all 7 groups
- 17 evaluated by 5 of 7 groups
- 5 evaluated by AHRQ
* 2006 activities
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Building a Foundation for Knowing What Works
• Create a single entity with authority, overarching responsibility, sustained resources, and adequate capacity to ensure credible, unbiased information about clinical effectiveness is produced.
• The program should:
- set priorities for, fund, and manage systematic reviews of clinical effectiveness and related topics
- develop a common language and standards for conducting systematic reviews of evidence and generating clinical guidelines and recommendations
- provide a forum for addressing conflicting guidelines and recommendations
- report to Congress annually
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Building a Foundation for Knowing What Works
• The Secretary of HHS should appoint a Clinical Effectiveness Advisory Board to oversee the Program.
• Advisory Board should be constituted to minimize bias due to conflict of interest and should represent diverse public and private sector expertise and interests.
• Program should develop standards to minimize bias due to conflicts of interest for – priority setting– evidence assessment– guidelines development
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Setting Priorities
The Program should appoint a standing Priority Setting Advisory Committee (PSAC) to identify high priority topics for systematic reviews of clinical effectiveness • Priority setting process should be open, transparent,
efficient, and timely
• Priorities should reflect - the potential to improve health across the life span- reduce the burden of disease and health disparities- eliminate undesirable variation- consider economic factors, such as costs of treatment and
economic burden of disease
• Membership of the PSAC should include a broad mix of expertise and interests and be chosen to minimize bias due to conflicts of interest
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Assessing Evidence
• Develop evidence-based methods standards for systematic reviews, including a common language for characterizing the strength of evidence
• Fund reviewers only if they commit to and consistently meet these standards
• Invest in advancing the scientific methods underlying the conduct of systematic reviews and update standards for funded reviews as appropriate
• Assess the capacity of the research workforce to meet the needs for systematic reviews
• Expand training opportunities in systematic review and comparative effectiveness research methods as appropriate
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Developing Clinical Practice Guidelines
• Groups developing clinical guidelines or recommendations should – adhere to the program’s standards– document their adherence – make documentation publicly available
• Panels should include a balance of competing interests and diverse stakeholders, publish conflict of interest disclosures, and prohibit voting by members with material conflicts to minimize bias
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Using Clinical Practice Guidelines
• Who should preferentially use guidelines developed according to these standards?– Clinicians and providers– Public and private insurers– Purchasers– Accrediting organizations– Performance measurement groups– Patients and consumers