Health services research and outcome (HSRO)

Aims and Missions 

The Section on Health Services Research and Outcome (formerly Section on Outcome Evaluation) is, since its foundation, dedicated to outcome research–to developing tools that might help in improving the quality of our work and, thus, the outcome of our patients.  

Chair and deputy 

Philipp Metnitz - Vienna, Austria
Maurizia Capuzzo - Padova, Italy 

Membership 

There are currently 111 voting members and 428 registered members. Please note that only the voting members of the Section may elect the chair and the deputy. Do you wish to be one of the members of this Section or do you wish to change your Section registration? Please go to My data.  

Activities 

Several projects of the section are still running successfully. Two new sub-studies have emerged from the SAPS 3 project: "Sepsis Mortality Prediction based on Predisposition, Injury and Response" has been published in the journal Intensive Care Medicine and is available for download. The second model deals with outcome prediction after 28 days and will be published in the Journal of Critical Care soon. Moreover, software to calculate the extended scores is now available on this website. Preliminary results of the SEE 2 study have already been presented in the Hot-Topics session at Berlin. The results are striking and we look forward to see them published and discussed. You can find further details under the link below.

Since the term of the Section Chair and the Deputy end this year, elections will take place in spring. We ask all of you to make use of your vote. Please ensure that you are registered as a voting member for the Section! Hope to see you all in Lisbon.

P. Metnitz

Chairman HSRO

Further details and results of projects of our section can be downloaded from the following websites:

1. SAPS3
2. SEE study

Meetings agenda and minutes 
 

Useful Links 
 

Working Group on Outcome 
Working group on Heatlh Economics 
Working group on Continuous quality improvement