Profile

Biography

Nils Gutacker is a Research Fellow in the Health Policy Team. He joined the Centre for Health Economics in 2009, after completing a MSc in Health Economics at the University of York. He holds a BSc in Health Care Management from the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany (2007) and completed parts of his studies at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (Spain) and Monash University (Australia).

Nils’ research focuses on performance measurement of health care providers using patient-level data and the theory of hospital behaviour. In particular, he investigates the use of patient reported outcome measures (PROMs) as a means of measuring the performance of health care providers in improving patient health.

Research

Overview

• Efficiency analysis
• Performance indicators
• Hospital behaviour
• Measurement of quality of care
  

Current projects

• Nils is currently involved in the NIHR-funded project "Combining routinely collected data and patient outcomes to measure the outcome/cost ratios of hospital procedures and identify variation across providers".

Research group(s)

• Health Policy Team
  

Publications

Full publications list

2012

• Gutacker N, Bojke C, Daidone S, Devlin N, Street A. Analysing hospital variation in health outcome at the level of EQ-5D dimensions: Centre for Health Economics, University of York; CHE Research Paper 74 (PDF , 521kb)2012.

2011

• Gutacker N, Bojke C, Daidone S, Devlin N, Parkin D, Street A. Truly inefficient or providing better quality of care? analysing the relationship between risk-adjusted hospital costs and patients’ health outcomes. Centre for Health Economics, University of York; CHE Research Paper 68 (PDF , 381kb) , 2011.

2010

• Gutacker N, Neumann A, Santosa F, Moysidis T, Kroeger K. Amputations in PAD patients - data from the German Federal Statistical Office. Vascular Medicine 2010;15:9-14.