ArticleFrontiers in public health2024
Value-based care as a solution to resolve the open debate on public healthcare outsourcing in Europe: What do the available data say?
Article in Frontiers in public health, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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- Value-Based Outsourcing Is Associated with Improved Healthcare Outcomes in Low- and Intermediate-Complexity European Hospitals: A Cross-Sectional Study from Spain.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Value-based outsourcing is associated with better environmental and economic sustainability metrics while maintaining patient safety: a comparative analysis of electricity use, water use, and prescription costs in public hospitals of Madrid (Spain).Frontiers in health services · 2026Article
- Effects of Virtually Led Value-Based Preoperative Assessment on Safety, Efficiency, and Patient and Professional Satisfaction.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Toward value in healthcare: opportunities and challenges for implementing Value-Based Healthcare in North Macedonia.Frontiers in public health · 2025Review
- Impact on healthcare and operational outcomes of outsourcing to a private value-based provider: analysis of tertiary hospitals in the Community of Madrid.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
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Abstract
Controversy surrounds the current debate regarding the effects of outsourcing health services, as recent studies claim that increased outsourcing leads to reduced costs at the expense of worse patient outcomes. The goal of the value-based model is to enable healthcare systems to create more value for patients, and evidence points to improvements in public health outcomes, patient experience, and health expenditure in systems incorporating components of value-based healthcare. Some emerging evidence indicates promising results for outsourced hospitals which follow a value-based model of healthcare delivery. Although additional future studies are still needed to confirm these benefits, value-based healthcare merits discussion as a new perspective on the public versus private management debate. In fact, we argue that outsourcing to value-based health providers could represent a valid alternative for public health management, encouraging greater competition within the healthcare sector while ensuring quality of care for both public and private sectors.
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