An empirical tool for estimating the share of unmet need due to healthcare inefficiencies, suboptimal access, and lack of effective technologies

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dc.contributor.authorIncerti, Devin
dc.contributor.authorBrowne, John P.
dc.contributor.authorHuber, Caroline
dc.contributor.authorBaker, Christine L.
dc.contributor.authorMakinson, Geoff
dc.contributor.authorGoren, Amir
dc.contributor.authorWillke, Richard
dc.contributor.authorStevens, Warren
dc.contributor.funderPfizeren
dc.date.accessioned2019-11-26T05:35:47Z
dc.date.available2019-11-26T05:35:47Z
dc.date.issued2019-02-11
dc.description.abstractBackground: Although there has been growing attention to the measurement of unmet need, which is the overall epidemiological burden of disease, current measures ignore the burden that could be eliminated from technological advances or more effective use of current technologies. Methods: We developed a conceptual framework and empirical tool that separates unmet need from met need and subcategorizes the causes of unmet need into suboptimal access to and ineffective use of current technologies and lack of current technologies. Statistical models were used to model the relationship between health-related quality of life (HR-QOL) and treatment utilization using data from the National Health and Wellness Survey (NHWS). Predicted HRQOL was combined with prevalence data from the Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD) to estimate met need and the causes of unmet need due to morbidity in the US and EU5 for five diseases: rheumatoid arthritis, breast cancer, Parkinson’s disease, hepatitis C, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Results: HR-QOL was positively correlated with adherence to medication and patient-perceived quality and negatively correlated with financial barriers. Met need was substantial across all disease and regions, although significant unmet need remains. While the majority of unmet need was driven by lack of technologies rather than ineffective use of current technologies, there was considerable variation across diseases and regions. Overall unmet need was largest for COPD, which had the highest prevalence of all diseases in this study. Conclusion: We developed a methodology that can inform decisions about which diseases to invest in and whether those investments should focus on improving access to currently available technologies or inventing new technologiesen
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
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dc.identifier.articleid113en
dc.identifier.citationIncerti, D., Browne, J., Huber, C., Baker, C.L., Makinson, G., Goren, A., Willke, R. and Stevens, W. (2019). An empirical tool for estimating the share of unmet need due to healthcare inefficiencies, suboptimal access, and lack of effective technologies. BMC health services research, 19(1), 113. (11pp) doi: 10.1186/s12913-019-3914-7en
dc.identifier.doi10.1186/s12913-019-3914-7en
dc.identifier.eissn1472-6963
dc.identifier.endpage11en
dc.identifier.issued1en
dc.identifier.journaltitleBMC Health Services Researchen
dc.identifier.startpage1en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/9226
dc.identifier.volume19en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherBioMed Central Ltden
dc.relation.urihttps://bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12913-019-3914-7
dc.rights© The Author(s) 2019. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.subjectUnmet needen
dc.subjectQuality of lifeen
dc.subjectHealthcare inefficiencyen
dc.subjectAccess to healthcareen
dc.subjectHealth economicsen
dc.subjectInequalityen
dc.titleAn empirical tool for estimating the share of unmet need due to healthcare inefficiencies, suboptimal access, and lack of effective technologiesen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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