In person-centred care, health and social care professionals work collaboratively with those that use their services.
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What is required for tech implementation in the NHS to be successful, and how should this shape our post-pandemic priorities? Shakira Mahadeva explores the challenges.
Led by Dr Christopher Burton, University of Aberdeen, this research aimed to examine how patients value the ways in which support for self-management of chronic pain is made personal to them, using di...
The Star approach involves a wide range of stakeholders, who all contribute their own expertise and opinions. While this is one of the great strengths of the Star approach, it can potentially result i...
The Star approach has great potential to help make better healthcare resource allocation decisions. To get the most out of Star, planning is necessary before using the approach including: collate as m...
The context tab is the first part of the Star tool and allows you to provide the context in which the tool is being used. For example the data you have, the areas of care you are looking at, the stake...
The Star tool is an Excel based tool built in Excel 2007. Due to its limited use of macros, it is compatible with other versions of Excel including Excel 2003. Downloading the tool Please be aware tha...
As described in the role of the Excel-based Star tool in the Star approach, the Star tool is only one part of the Star approach. It will lose its powerful potential if it is used without a Star decisi...
While high quality data is helpful to get the best out of using Star, the beauty of the approach is that it enables the stakeholders to fill the data gaps by using their combined experience and perspe...
Key to the Star approach is the involvement of all stakeholders in a workshop process of structured decision analysis, so informed decisions about resources can be made. For this to be successful, the...
The methodology at the heart of Star is an example of multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA). MCDA is a procedure for people faced with a set of options to systematically rank their preferences using...
Star is an innovative approach to support commissioners and other healthcare stakeholders to make resource allocation decisions. The components of the Star approach are an Excel-based technical tool, ...
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