Bazian - Better health at lower cost

[Marco]

Expect to see more analyses from these folks :

Bazian specialises in applying clinical evidence to help optimise health within limited healthcare budgets. By using clinically credible, evidence-based approaches, supported by an implementation team including experienced medical doctors, health research analysts, information specialists, and public health experts, we ensure that decisions to invest and disinvest are robust, transparent, defensible and gain the buy-in of all stakeholders, including managers, clinicians and patients. Being clinician-led and evidence-based means that our analyses can be trusted to be scientifically credible, relevant and targeted to deliver better, more cost effective care.

http://www.bazian.com/

With some interesting testimonials :

http://www.bazian.com/about_us/testimonials.html

 

[OverTheHills]

Uurgh. I think I need a shower after reading those testamonials. Thanks for drawing this to our attention Marco. I think. OTH

 

[alex3619]

Bazian seems to be a for-profit organization - has anyone read they are not for proft? If a profit motive is involved in this kind of service, it runs the risk of falling into the very traps that other evidence based organizations run into. In my view this kind of organization either needs to be independent but public funded. It also needs to be open and transparent, and subject to both professional criticism and scientifid investigation (including clinical trials). There is however room for private organizations to operate this way after evidence based medicine has been established.

This team follows NICE guidelines, but NICE guidelines often lack robust evidence based approaches. That is something I may be expanding on in the future. This is nowhere more evident than in so-called functional somatic syndrome, including ME.

There are some interesting caveats in some of their documents, including an acknowledgement that there are times when evidence based approaches should not be used. I have only had a brief look, there might be other interesting things I have not seen at their site.

I think they are correct in saying that oversight organizations should be more about evidence based approaches than regular medical practictioners, but the emphasis is in my current view misplaced as the evidence base should be about informing and empowering medical decision making at the individual practitioner level, not controlling it.

Bye, Alex