Research Agenda for High-Value, Equitable Care: Final Report
This final report on the research agenda details the context, methods, and priorities for research aimed at improving health care value and equity.
As health care costs continue to rise and health disparities persist, the need to redesign our health care system to deliver better, more equitable care is paramount—and we must have a strong evidence base grounded in the needs of our communities to inform this work. This report presents the process and results of a collective effort to outline research priorities for achieving high-value, equitable care, led by AcademyHealth and with funding from The Donaghue Foundation.
To guide development of the research agenda, we convened a 20-member consensus group to first define what high-value, equitable care means and then to develop a driver diagram of the primary and secondary drivers needed for improving health care value and equity. Based on this framework, AcademyHealth worked with key stakeholders to create a prioritized list of research questions for a research agenda on high-value, equitable care, framed around the following drivers/research domains:
- A fair and just culture of whole-person health for all;
- Care that is accessible to all patients;
- Health system centered around primary care;
- Adequate health system capacity to deliver care;
- Health system accountability for outcomes; and
- General research infrastructure.