Evidence-based healthcare management

Abstract

Evidence of the effectiveness and efficiency of management decisions being taken in health care of any system or model is of great importance for specialists. The health care system development in the economically developed countries of Europe, North America, Asia, and the South Pacific Ocean shows clear convergent trends. Three priority areas characterize them: strengthening the budgetary and state principle, compulsory health insurance, and additional (voluntary or departmental, corporate) health insurance coverage. These processes are extremely difficult to assess because no country has proven data on the benefits of some principle of health care. The theory of "evidence-based management in health care" presented in the article provides a reliable basis for choosing the most effective health care model and making the most effective management decisions. Management methods are implemented under the mutual influence of many factors and conditions, which are impossible to consider even with modern informatization. Hence, the study aims to analyze and examine evidence-based healthcare management. To that end, the materials of publications on the problems of evidence-based medicine and evidence-based management and the method of content analysis and comparative assessments, synthesis, and logic of definitions development are utilized. Based on the results, the point at issue is the formation of a new culture of management, one of the functions of which is to acquire and effectively use new knowledge. The ability to obtain and analyze the necessary information and use it in decision-making should become one of the key management competencies.