Quality and Outcomes Research Unit (QORU)
- Principal investigator(s):
- Julien Forder, José-Luis Fernández, Ray Fitzpatrick
- Team:
- Julien Forder, Ray Fitzpatrick, José-Luis Fernández, Ann Netten, Julie Beadle-Brown, Nadia Brookes, Angela Coulter, Francesco D'Amico, Diane Fox, Clara Heath, Cheryl Hunter, Crispin Jenkinson, Martin Knapp, Juliette Malley, Michele Peters, Stacey Rand, Kamilla Razik, Lisa Richardson, Sara Ryan, Asuza Sato, Nick Smith, Ann-Marie Towers, Lisa Trigg, Agnes Turnpenny, Beckie Whelton, Sue Ziebland, Valentina Zigante
- Start year:
- 2010
- End year:
- 2018
- Funder:
- Secretary of State for Health
- Partners:
- PSSRU at Kent and LSE, University of Oxford, Tizard Centre (University of Kent)
- Website:
- https://www.qoru.ac.uk
The Quality and Outcomes Research Unit (QORU) has been funded by the Department of Health in England to develop and promote appropriate use of evidence, both quantitative and qualitative, of need, quality and outcomes in relation to long-term health conditions, with resulting beneficial impact on the quality of health and social services. The Unit has initially been funded to conduct a 5-year programme of research and will seek to: engage sufferers of long-term conditions in research; identify their conditions and circumstances and the effects these condition have on their quality of life; find the most appropriate ways to use information about people’s outcomes and experience to guide the development of the health and social care services in England; and gather evidence about the best strategies to support people with chronic diseases and other long-term conditions.
Publications
DPs or Working Papers
DP or working paper
Body mass, physical activity and future long-term care use
2018
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Engagement of people with long-term conditions in health and social care research: a review of barriers and facilitators to capturing the views of seldom-heard populations
2016
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How can MAX help local authorities to use social care data to inform local policy? Maximising the value of survey data in adult social care [MAX] project
2015
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Using a ‘wellbeing’ cost-effectiveness approach to improve resource allocation in social care
2015
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How can MAX help local authorities to use social care data to inform local policy? (Executive summary)
2015
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How can MAX help local authorities to use social care data to inform local policy? (Infographic)
2015
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Further analysis of ASCS and PSS SACE data: Case studies of local authority (LA) practice
2015
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Using Proxies to assess Quality of Life: A Review of the Issues and Challenges
2015
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How can MAX help local authorities to use social care data to inform local policy? Maximising the value of survey data in adult social care [MAX] project. Executive Summary
2015
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Generating ‘Adjusted’ Indicators from Social Care Survey Data
2014
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Review of factors important in use of survey data for quality and performance improvement: Report from literature review
2014
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Measuring the Social Care Outcomes of Informal Carers: An Interim Technical Report for the Identifying the Impact of Adult Social Care (IIASC)
2012
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Conference Presentations
Conference presentation output
Quality of life of older adults who use social care support and their unpaid carers
2015
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Conference presentation output
The Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit for Carers
2015
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Conference presentation output
The long-term conditions questionnaire (LTCQ): a patient-reported outcome measure
2015
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Conference presentation output
Body Mass, Physical Activity and Future Care Needs
2015
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Patient engagement and health information technology. Paper for Commonwealth Fund and Nuffield Trust, 15th International meeting on Improving the Quality and Efficiency of Health Care, 16-17 July 2015
2015
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Using ASCOT to improve care practice and monitor quality in care homes
2014
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Conference presentation output
How the Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit (ASCOT) can help us understand quality of life and quality of care of people living with dementia in care homes
2014
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Blogs
Blog
The rocky road to developing a toolkit
2016
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