European Society for Organ Transplantation (ESOT) Consensus Statement on Outcome Measures in Liver Transplantation According to Value-Based Health Care.

Abstract

Liver transplantation is a highly complex, life-saving, treatment for many patients with advanced liver disease. Liver transplantation requires multidisciplinary teams, system-wide adaptations and significant investment, as well as being an expensive treatment. Several metrics have been proposed to monitor processes and outcomes, however these lack patient focus and do not capture all aspects of the process. Most of the reported outcomes do not capture those outcomes that matter to the patients. Adopting the principles of Value-Based Health Care (VBHC), may provide an opportunity to develop those metrics that matter to patients. In this article, we present a Consensus Statement on Outcome Measures in Liver Transplantation following the principles of VBHC, developed by a dedicated panel of experts under the auspices of the European Society of Organ Transplantation (ESOT) Guidelines' Taskforce. The overarching goal is to provide a framework to facilitate the development of outcome measures as an initial step to apply the VMC paradigm to liver transplantation.

• Authors: Marco Carbone, James Neuberger, Ian Rowe, Wojciech G Polak, Anna Forsberg, Constantino Fondevila, Lorenzo Mantovani, Alessandra Nardi, Agostino Colli, Karen Rockell, Liz Schick, Laura Cristoferi, Gabriel C Oniscu, Mario Strazzabosco, Umberto Cillo
• Journal: Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation (Transpl Int) Vol. 36 Pg. 12190 ( 2023) ISSN: 1432-2277 [Electronic] Switzerland
• PMID: 38332850 (Publication Type: Journal Article)
• Copyright: Copyright © 2024 Carbone, Neuberger, Rowe, Polak, Forsberg, Fondevila, Mantovani, Nardi, Colli, Rockell, Schick, Cristoferi, Oniscu, Strazzabosco and Cillo.

Topics

• Humans
• Liver Transplantation
• Value-Based Health Care
• Organ Transplantation
• Outcome Assessment, Health Care