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
Reports
Report
Commissioning services for adults with learning disabilities or autism: the views and experiences of commissioners
2016
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Report
Developing an Easy Read version of the Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit (ASCOT)
2015
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Report
Developing an Easy Read version of the Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit (ASCOT) - Appendix
2015
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Making the Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit Easy Read
2015
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Report
The development of the long-term conditions questionnaire (LTCQ). Interim report
2015
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Report
Cancer PROMs: A Scoping Study. Report to Macmillan Cancer Support
2015
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Report
Understanding and addressing underrepresentation in a postal survey of social care users. Summary
2014
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Report
Pilot study of patient reported outcome measures (PROMs) in primary care
2013
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Report
Report on using the GPPS to assess trends in EQ-5D scores for people with long-term conditions
2013
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Report
Some considerations relating to the attribution of NHS activity to outcomes for people with long-term conditions
2013
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Report
Personal outcome measures and postal surveys of social care
2013
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Report
Understanding and addressing underrepresentation in a postal survey of social care users. Full report
2012
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Report
"It’s very weird having other people in the space that you think is kind of private”: Choice and decision making around home based health and social care services (Summary)
2012
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Project Outlines
Project Outline
Living with Long-Term Conditions: Validation of the Long-Term Conditions Questionnaire (LTCQ)
2016
Project outline
Read moreResearch Summaries
Research Summary
Identifying the Impact of Adult Social Care (plain English summary)
2015
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Research Summary
"It’s very weird having other people in the space that you think is kind of private”: Choice and decision making around home based health and social care services (Final report)
2012
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Research Summary
Engagement of People with Long-Term Conditions in Health and Social Care Research: Barriers and Facilitators to Capturing the Views of Seldom Heard Populations. Summary
2012
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DPs or Working Papers
DP or working paper
Heterogeneity in the effect of obesity on future long-term care use in England
2019
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DP or working paper
ASCOT Easy Read: usability evaluation of an electronic adaptation
2019
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DP or working paper
The impact and cost of adult social care: marginal effects of change in funding
2018
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