Health Care Needs Assessment Series: the epidemiologically based needs assessment reviews

Introduction

Everyone involved in the commissioning, planning and prioritisation of health care requires accurate and comprehensive information to answer a number of crucial questions:

• With what population or patients (how many and how severely ill) are we concerned?
• What services are currently provided?
• What is the evidence of the effectiveness of these services?
• What is the optimum configuration of services?

In other words: What is the need and how can it be best met?

These questions are answered in part by epidemiological literature and in part by the products of the evidence-based health care movement. The Health Care Needs Assessment series combines these and offers a perspective across an entire disease, service area or specialty.

Dr Sue Simpson
Project Manager - Health Care Needs Assessment
http://www.hcna.bham.ac.uk/

Contents

• Dermatology HCNA Summary
• Breast Cancer HCNA Summary
• Child & Adolescent Mental Health HCNA Summary
• Low Back Pain HCNA Summary
• Gynaecology HCNA Summary
• Genitourinary Medicine HCNA Summary
• Accident & Emergency Departments HCNA Summary
• Palliative & Terminal Care HCNA Summary

eGuidelines.co.uk (17 May 2012)
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