The Daily Debate - 2
Quality and Survival Outcomes
EBMT’s benchmarking strategy will provide transplant professionals with a means to assess how their unit is performing compared to the wider BMT community. In addition, it can reassure patients and payers with respect to the clinical performance and cost-effectiveness of their clinical BMT teams and services. However, it’s not without its challenges - Prof. John Snowden (Chair, JACIE Committee), Dr. Riccardo Saccardi (JACIE Medical Director) and Prof. Hein Putter (Medical Statistician, Leiden University Medical Center) talk us through these as well the opportunities the new system provides.