scholarly journals Importance of Patient Involvement in the Value Assessment Process: On the Way Towards Personalised Treatments

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Gusset
2014 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joona Keränen ◽  
Anne Jalkala

Purpose – The strategies to assess potential and realized customer value have received surprisingly little attention in management literature. The purpose of this paper is to examine potential customer value assessment strategies for business-to-business (B2B) firms and their special characteristics. Design/methodology/approach – The empirical part of the study draws from an exploratory, two-part field study involving three pilot firms, and seven best practice firms in customer value assessment. The research design followed an inductive, discovery-oriented grounded theory approach. Primary data were gathered through semi-structured interviews with 35 business managers from ten B2B firms. Findings – The study identifies three customer value assessment strategies adopted by firms in business markets: Emergent value sales strategy; Life-cycle value management strategy; and Dedicated value specialist strategy. These strategies highlight different ways of managing and coordinating organizational units in different phases of the customer value assessment process. Research limitations/implications – The study was conducted from the supplier's perspective and is context-bound to firms operating in B2B markets. Practical implications – Managers need to select an appropriate strategy for customer value assessment depending on market and offering characteristics, and assign clear responsibilities for value potential identification, baseline assessment, and long-term value realization. Originality/value – The extant literature on customer value lacks understanding on customer value assessment strategies. The present study identifies three strategies that illuminate the required resources and organizational units at different phases of the customer value assessment process.


Author(s):  
Arnaud Meert ◽  
Jean-Paul De Cock

The paper will deal with the way Electrabel carried out an independent control of the safety case studies of Doel 3 and Tihange 2 Reactor Pressure Vessels assessments after the discovery of indications of hydrogen induced flakes. Electrabel’s Physical Control Service (Service de Contrôle Physique: SCP), acting as an internal independent body, has been involved since the very beginning of the development of the Safety Case. Its objective has been to perform an independent review of the project deliverables issued by the Project Team. Several independent evaluations were carried out. Some were externalised: for instance Sandia National Laboratories performed calculations with an independent methodology to challenge the project grouping methodology; they also assessed the UT technique used for the non-destructive tests. Others were done internally: for instance, statistical calculations were performed during the UT qualification process, leading to a recommendation to increase the detection level. SCP also provided its recommendations when determining the fluence level for the irradiation campaigns done in the BR-2 reactor. This helped to challenge the correlations established for the Safety Case by the Project Team. The paper will detail the way the SCP was organised, the scope of its activities and reviews. It will detail the legal process of independent review as requested by the Belgian legal framework. It will also detail some specific actions carried out as the Sandia counter-study and some external expertise performed. During the whole assessment process, SCP produced several reports, synthetized in the final advise: ‘Report on independent analysis and advice regarding the Safety Case’ and its addendum, published on the website of the FANC. This late one covered the full project scope (Safety Case 2015 Version1), ranging from the preliminary studies, proceedings of mechanical tests, and draft documents up to the final justification file that was delivered to the Safety Authorities on 28 October 2015. An overview of those reports, the concerns and the solution found and finally the approbation of the action plan will be described. Nevertheless, the paper will not address the part of the review done by the Regulatory Body and its Technical Support Organization as it is out of the scope of the SCP activities.


Author(s):  
Israel Gutiérrez Rojas ◽  
Raquel M. Crespo ◽  
Michael Totschnig ◽  
Derick Leony ◽  
Carlos Delgado Kloos

With the introduction of the Web 2.0 philosophy in the learning arena, the way learning actors interact has changed substantially. From a collaborative perspective, all the actors in the learning landscape could make use of a variety of tools for collaboration, making up what it is called: “collaborative learning 2.0.” In this chapter, the discussion is focused on the open educational resources (OER), concretely open assessment resources, i.e., open resources used in the assessment process (formative and/or summative). The authors explore the way to create, share, search, manage, and access to these resources; all these actions are described from the context of collaboration inherited from the Web 2.0 paradigms: collaboration among teachers and course designers, teachers and learners, and any other factors that could arise in the assessment process. On the other hand, the approach to managing the open assessment resources is based on an outcome-based assessment process because of the great importance of the outcome-based learning.


Author(s):  
John Terrell ◽  
Joan Richardson ◽  
Margaret Hamilton

<span>Web 2.0 technologies have transformed the way people in information industries engage with their clients, collaborate on projects, promote their services and gather community knowledge. In this paper, we describe the impact of industry adoption of Web 2.0 technologies on an information management course. The students in this course are either already working in or plan to be entering information professions such as librarianship, archiving, records management, information architecture, and information and knowledge management. The lecturer and tutors for this course are changing the way learning is assessed and constructively aligning it with industry expectations for library and information graduates. Specifically in this paper we focus on the impact of the Web 2.0 affordances on student learning, the assessment process, and constructive alignment of intended learning outcomes with industry expectations in an information management blogging assignment. These findings are from the final stage of an Australian project where case studies of subjects that used Web 2.0 tools to assess student work were documented. Analysis of the students' blogs reveals exploration of the new tools used in a professional manner, greater collaboration and improved communication within the subject.</span>


Author(s):  
Umida Karimovna Mukhtorova ◽  
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Sayyora Karimjon Qizi Kasimova ◽  

The article examines the theoretical and methodological basis of business value assessment and systematizes the factors influencing the process of business value assessment. A comparative analysis of the role of existing problems in the process of systematic organization of the business value assessment process. Scientific proposals and practical recommendations for the formation of directions for improving the system of business value assessment have been formed.


Author(s):  
Ana Toledo-Chávarri ◽  
Marie-Pierre Gagnon ◽  
Yolanda Álvarez-Pérez ◽  
Lilisbeth Perestelo-Pérez ◽  
Yolanda Triñanes Pego ◽  
...  

Abstract Introduction This paper aims to describe the development of a flowchart to guide the decisions of researchers in the Spanish Network for Health Technology Assessment of the National Health System (RedETS) regarding patient involvement (PI) in Health Technology Assessment (HTA). By doing so, it reflects on current methodological challenges in PI in the HTA field: how best to combine PI methods and what is the role of patient-based evidence. Methods A decisional flowchart for PI in HTA was developed between March and April 2019 following an iterative process, reviewed by the members of the PI Interest Group and other RedETS members and validated during an online deliberative meeting. The development of the flowchart was based on a previous methodological framework assessed in a pilot study. Results The guidelines on how to involve patients in HTA in the RedETS were graphically represented in a flowchart. PI must be included in all HTA reports, except those that assess technologies with no relevant impact on patients’ experiences, values, and preferences. Patient organizations or expert patients related to the topic of the HTA report must be identified and invited. These patients can participate in protocol development, outcomes' identification, assessment process, and report review. When the technology assessed affects in a relevant way patient experiences, values, and preferences, patient-based evidence should be included through a systematic literature review or a primary study. Conclusions The decisional flowchart for PI in HTA contributes to the current methodological challenges by proposing a combination of direct involvement and patient-based evidence.


2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Paul C. Langley

The Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER) is seen as offering a credible platform for evaluating the pricing policies for pharmaceutical products and devices. Over the past few years ICER has presented a stream of reports, many of which have recommended substantial price discounts where the results of a lifetime cost-per-QALY modeling suggests they are out of line with notional willingness to pay thresholds and arbitrary budget constraints. At the same time, there have been growing concerns over the lack of transparency in the ICER value assessment process, focusing in particular on the refusal by ICER to allow access to its value assessment modeling framework. The purpose of this brief commentary is to point out that the position taken by ICER over model access is not defensible; the arguments given are specious. This ongoing refusal undercuts the ICER claim to be independent and the credibility of ICER recommendations for price discounting. The solution is for ICER to commit to a transparent process of value assessment, allowing in particular access to its models and for the ICER model to be subject to an independent assessment. At the same time, manufacturers and other stakeholders should have access to the model with the opportunity to challenge the model through developing model frameworks which they feel better represent product value. This advocacy, it should be noted, does not reflect acceptance of the ICER lifetime cost-per-QALY value assessment framework. Health care decision makers would be better served by a value assessment framework that provided short-term credible, evaluable and replicable claims, facilitating meaningful feedback to decision makers, and not on the construction of simulated imaginary worlds. Conflict of Interest: None   Type: Commentary


2019 ◽  
Vol 97 ◽  
pp. 04018
Author(s):  
Nadezhda Chiganova

The reliability determination of building structures and their components in a two-step mode nowadays is a relevant task. The article studies the problem of determining the building structures and their components reliability performance in a two-step mode based on the results of the tests described. These tests were conducted as follows: the batch of products intended for test are first tested in the first mode, and then in the second mode. A certain moment of time for mode switching is selected randomly by a specified law. The product is then tested in the variable two-stage mode. During testing, moments of time of product operation in the first and second modes are registered. Two experimentation programs that differ in the way of mode switching are proposed: program tests and dynamic tests. Examples of the methodology application to the determination of the product failure rate were discussed. According to the results of theoretical and practical application of the proposed method, the way to determine the reliability parameters using different laws was suggested for application in structural analysis and construction products reliability assessment process.


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