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Mission Statement
Our aim is to improve the quality of health and social care of people with long-term conditions through generating high-quality evidence about need, quality and outcomes of person-centred care.
Working Strategy
To develop and promote the appropriate use of evidence, both quantitative and qualitative, of quality and outcomes of services for people with long-term conditions, to improve the quality of health and social care.
Research Programmes
Our research is organised under four themes: engagement, measurement, application and service delivery. Within each, we are carrying out a range of activities including evidence reviews, secondary analyses, cost-effectiveness estimations and primary research.
Welcome to QORU
QORU Seminar: How can we make the best use of information on outcomes? 2 April 2012, 1pm - 4:30pm, London School of Economics
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Our work is organised under four themes:
- Engagement: ensuring the evidence is inclusive
- Measurement: ensuring the evidence is sound
- Application: ensuring we use the evidence to best effect
- Service delivery: reviewing and producing evidence about what works best
At the heart of current government policy in health and social care is a focus on achieving outcomes. The success of this strategy will depend in part on how well we measure and use outcome information and translate the results into policies and practice that improve the experiences of people using health and social care services.
The Policy Research Unit in Quality and Outcomes of person-centred care (QORU) is a collaboration involving researchers in health and social care from the Universities of Kent, Oxford and the London School of Economics (LSE). We are funded by the Department of Health for five years from January 2011.
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