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ArticleLearning health systems2020

Learning health care systems: Highly needed but challenging.

Roel H P Wouters, Rieke van der Graaf, Emile E Voest, Annelien L Bredenoord

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Article in Learning health systems, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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4 authors.

Roel H P WoutersDepartment of Medical Humanities, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care University Medical Center Utrecht/Utrecht University Utrecht The Netherlands.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8686-9166
Rieke van der GraafDepartment of Medical Humanities, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care University Medical Center Utrecht/Utrecht University Utrecht The Netherlands.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4907-7044
Emile E VoestDepartment of Medical Oncology Netherlands Cancer Institute Amsterdam The Netherlands.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8249-9586
Annelien L BredenoordDepartment of Medical Humanities, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care University Medical Center Utrecht/Utrecht University Utrecht The Netherlands.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7542-8963

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundLearning health care systems (LHSs) have the potential to transform health care. However, this transformation process faces significant challenges. MATERIALS AND

methodsBased on proposals and early examples of LHSs in the literature and conceptual analysis of the LHS mission, we provide four models with distinct organizational and ethical implications that may facilitate the transformation.

resultsAn LHS could be developed in the following ways: by taking away practical impediments that prevent patients and professionals from engaging in scientific research (model 1: optimization LHS); by routinely analyzing observational data from electronic health records and other sources (model 2: comprehensive data LHS); by making clinical decisions based on the outcomes of the aforementioned data analyses and directly evaluating the outcomes in order to continuously improve decision-making (model 3: real-time LHS); or by embedding clinical trials into routine care delivery (model 4: full LHS).

conclusionsEach model has different ethical implications for consent and oversight. Also, the four-model approach shows that reorganizing a health care center into an LHS is not an all-or-nothing decision. Rather, it is a choice from a menu of possibilities. Instead of discussing the advantages and disadvantages of the LHS menu in its entirety, the medical community should focus on the designs and ethical aspects of each of the separate options.

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health policyinformed consentlearning health care systemlearning health systemresearch ethics

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PMID32685681
PMCPMC7362679

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