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INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON

 

1. THE ECHO RESEARCH INFRAESTRUCTURE

2. COMPARING PERFORMANCE INDICATORS ACROSS COUNTRIES

3. COMPARING HETEROGENEOUS GEOGRAPHIC AREAS

 

UPCOMING ENTRIES:

INSTITUTIONAL FACTORS

REGULATORY ISSUES

COMPARARING POPULATIONS AND PATIENTS: BUILDING COMMON BENCHMARKS

 

 

Although some outlets focuses on in-country analyses, ECHO aims essentially at comparing health care systems performance across different countries.

Among the various challenges, ECHO has had to deal with the construction of a secure homogenous research infrastructure built upon individual patient level data, the adaptation and development of comparable performance indicators and robust benchmarks, or the composition of comparable geographic units of analysis.