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Outcome measures used to report performance on the websites of IVF clinics in the UK in January/ February 2015.

The Social media, Smartphone use and Self-Harm (3S-YP) study is a prospective observational cohort study to investigate the associations between social media and smartphone use and self-harm in young people. Young people aged 13–25 years old from secondary mental health services were recruited and followed for up to 6 months. Data collected in the study includes questionnaire data and data extracted from electronic health records (EHR) and user generated data sources.

The Social media, Smartphone use and Self-Harm (3S-YP) study is a prospective observational cohort study to investigate the associations between social media and smartphone use and self-harm in young people. Young people aged 13–25 years old from secondary mental health services were recruited and followed for up to 6 months. Data collected in the study includes questionnaire data and data extracted from electronic health records (EHR) and user generated data sources.

The Statistical Analysis Plan (SAP) to define the methods in determinig the primary outcome of the data collected from the Leg Ischaemia Managament Collaboration (LIMb) study.

Objective Although value-based healthcare (VBHC) views accurate cost information to be crucial in the pursuit of value, little is known about how the costs of care should be measured. The aim of this review is to identify how costs are currently measured in VBHC, and which cost measurement methods can facilitate VBHC or value-based decision making. Design Two reviewers systematically search the PubMed/MEDLINE, Embase, EBSCOhost and Web of Science databases for publications up to 1 January 2022 and follow Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines to identify relevant studies for further analysis. Eligibility criteria Studies should measure the costs of an intervention, treatment or care path and label the study as ‘value based’. An inductive qualitative approach was used to identify studies that adopted management accounting techniques to identify if or how cost information facilitated VBHC by aiding decision-making. Results We identified 1930 studies, of which 215 measured costs in a VBHC setting. Half of these studies measured hospital costs (110, 51.2%) and the rest relied on reimbursement amounts. Sophisticated costing methods that allocate both direct and indirect costs to care paths were seen as able to provide valuable managerial information by facilitating care path adjustments (39), benchmarking (38), the identification of cost drivers (47) and the measurement of total costs or cost savings (26). We found three best practices that were key to success in cost measurement: process mapping (33), expert input (17) and observations (24). Conclusions Cost information can facilitate VBHC. Time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC) is viewed as the best method although its ability to inform decision-making depends on how it is implemented. While costing short, or partial, care paths and surgical episodes produces accurate cost information, it provides only limited decision-making information. Practitioners are advised to focus on costing full care cycles and to consider both direct and indirect costs through TDABC.

A SPSS data file corresponding with the research paper titled: Why do children attend school, engage in other activities, or socialise when they have symptoms of an infectious illness? A cross-sectional surveyA cross-sectional survey.The data (n=941) is of UK parents of school children (aged between 4 and 17 years). All the variables that were used in the paper and the survey questions are included in the corresponding Word document.

Professor Nora Shields discusses the effects of a community-based intervention (FitSkills) for young people with disability on physical activity participation: a stepped wedge cluster randomised trial.

Data set to evaluate the relationships between subjective well-being and neighbourhood cohesion in two different informal settlement types.

The Statistical Analysis Plan (SAP) to define the methods in determinig the primary outcome of the data collected from the Leg Ischaemia Managament Collaboration (LIMb) study.

Objective Although value-based healthcare (VBHC) views accurate cost information to be crucial in the pursuit of value, little is known about how the costs of care should be measured. The aim of this review is to identify how costs are currently measured in VBHC, and which cost measurement methods can facilitate VBHC or value-based decision making. Design Two reviewers systematically search the PubMed/MEDLINE, Embase, EBSCOhost and Web of Science databases for publications up to 1 January 2022 and follow Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines to identify relevant studies for further analysis. Eligibility criteria Studies should measure the costs of an intervention, treatment or care path and label the study as ‘value based’. An inductive qualitative approach was used to identify studies that adopted management accounting techniques to identify if or how cost information facilitated VBHC by aiding decision-making. Results We identified 1930 studies, of which 215 measured costs in a VBHC setting. Half of these studies measured hospital costs (110, 51.2%) and the rest relied on reimbursement amounts. Sophisticated costing methods that allocate both direct and indirect costs to care paths were seen as able to provide valuable managerial information by facilitating care path adjustments (39), benchmarking (38), the identification of cost drivers (47) and the measurement of total costs or cost savings (26). We found three best practices that were key to success in cost measurement: process mapping (33), expert input (17) and observations (24). Conclusions Cost information can facilitate VBHC. Time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC) is viewed as the best method although its ability to inform decision-making depends on how it is implemented. While costing short, or partial, care paths and surgical episodes produces accurate cost information, it provides only limited decision-making information. Practitioners are advised to focus on costing full care cycles and to consider both direct and indirect costs through TDABC.