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  

Chair Andreas Valentin - Vienna, Austria

Deputy Akos Csomos - Budapest, Hungary

Membership 

Before starting the ESICM Congress in Barcelona, there were 800 members registered in the Section. All ESICM members interested in the activities of the Section are invited to join the HSRO Section as 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 send an email to ESICM Membership Dept. 

Activities 

According to the rules of the Society, the section members present their proposals and their views to Congress Committee and Research Committee through the chair and the deputy of the Section.
Three Working Groups responsible for specific research activities pertain to the section.
The Working Groups are involved in the following activities:

• Researches, as the SAPS 3 project, the SEE studies and the ICUFUND survey already performed, and the following future studies planned for the next year:
  • WorkDoc (about the workload of intensive care in Europe, with Rui Moreno as leader),
  • ELOISE (European Length Of ICU Stay Evaluation), having Didier Ledoux as head of both the project and the WG of Health Economics;
• Development of shared “Recommendations for basic requirements for Intensive Care Units – structural and organisational aspects” by the WG of Quality Improvement, head by Andreas Valentin.

We encourage you to participate in the meetings of Section and WGs, and will be delighted to welcome you both in Brussels and in Berlin next year.

Maurizia Capuzzo
Chair of the Section on Health Services Research & Outcome

The software to compute SAPS 3 Admission Score, SAPS 3 PIRO Score for infected patients, and SAPS 3 28-day Score can be downloaded free of charge from the following web site:

1. SAPS3 

Meetings agenda and minutes 
 

The minutes of the Section meeting held in Lisbon are available here.

The minutes of the Section meeting held in Brussels on 24th of March 2009 are available here.

The minutes of the Section meeting held in Vienna on 13th of October 2009 are available here.

Useful Links 
 

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