Table 1 Inclusion and exclusion criteria for public health and care networks and projects
From: EU health information progress: the harvest of policy supporting projects and networks
| Â | Inclusion | Exclusion |
|---|---|---|
Scope | Public health Population health Health care performance Health systems performance | Infectious diseases Individual rare diseases |
Activities | Data/information-collecting; Strengthening MS and/or EU health information systems and/or facilitate the use of evidence-based health information for health policy making | Non-data/information collecting, NGO type networks, commercial networks, networks on legal, ethical and governance issues, or networks in scientific areas where health is a side topic, epidemiological (cohort) analyses that are not used for MS comparisons |
Data collection (where applicable) | Longitudinal, periodic collection | One-time cross-sectional study |
Outcomes | Health related outcome and performance measures | Occurrence and effects of individual treatments, interventions and diagnostics; best practices in clinical settings |
Geographic coverage | EU and associated countries | other |
Geographic coverage | ≥ 5 countries | < 5 countries |
Funding | Health Program, Framework Program, Cost Action, other | Non-EU |