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Keywords

Benchmarking; Chronic Disease; Evaluation Studies; Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation; Health economics; Health Services Research; Health system performance assessment; Palliative Care; Public Health; Quality Indicators, Health Care; Telemedicine

Research group(s)

• Health Economics
  Research Area: Major research areas include the socioeconomic aspects of health, the organisation and evaluation of health care services and health systems, and the comparative costs, benefits and cost-effectiveness of relevant preventative, diagnostic and treatment options.
  Members:
  Noemi Kiss
  Claudia Fischer
  Susanne Mayer
  Natasa Peric
  Agata Laszewska
  Dennis Wienand

Research interests

• Health system performance assessment
• Outcomes research
• Patient reported outcome measures
• Development and evaluation of performance measures
• Economic evaluation
• Quality of hospital care
• Palliative care
• Chronic disorders
• Telemedicine
• Prediction modelling

Selected publications

1. Fischer C, Lingsma H, Hardwick R, Cromwell DA, Steyerberg E, Groene O. Risk adjustment models for short-term outcomes after surgical resection for oesophago-gastric cancer. British Journal of Surgery. 2016. 103(1): 105-116.
2. Fischer C, Steyerberg EW, Fonarow GC, Ganiats TG, Lingsma HF. A systematic review and meta-analysis on the association between quality of hospital care and readmission rates in patients with heart failure. American Heart Journal 2015 Nov;170(5):1005-17.
3. Fischer C, Lingsma H, van Leersum N, Tollenaar RA, Wouters MW. Comparing colon cancer outcomes: The impact of low hospital case volume and case-mix adjustment. European Journal of Surgical Oncology. 2015; 41(8).
4. Fischer C, Lingsma M, Marang van de Mheen P, Kringos DS, Klazinga NS, Steyerberg EW. Is the readmission rate a valid quality indicator? A review of the evidence. PloS One. 2014; 9 (11).
5. Fischer C, Lingsma H, Klazinga N, Hardwick R, Cromwell D, Steyerberg E, Groene O. Volume-outcome revisited: The effect of hospital and surgeon volumes on multiple outcome measures in oesophago-gastric cancer surgery. PLoS One. 2017 Oct 26;12(10).