The advanced handbook of methods in evidence based healthcare / edited by Andrew Stevens ... [et al.].
Material type: TextPublication details: London : SAGE, 2001.Description: xxx, 507p. : ill. ; 26 cmISBN:- 9780761961444 (hbk.) :
- 0761961445
- Evidence-based medicine -- Great Britain
- Medical technology -- Great Britain -- Evaluation -- Methodology
- Medical care -- Research -- Great Britain
- Evidence-based medicine
- Medical technology -- Evaluation
- Medical care -- Research
- Medical care -- Evaluation -- Great Britain
- Medical care -- Evaluation -- Methodology -- Great Britain
- Evidence-based medicine -- Evaluation -- Great Britain
- Health and Wellbeing
- Nursing
- Research methods: general
- Public health & preventive medicine
- United Kingdom, Great Britain
- Health systems & services
- 362.10941 STE
- RA3991.A1
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part 1. Clinical Trials: Introduction. 1. Ethical issues in the design and conduct of randomised controlled trials--2. Ethics of clinical trials: Social, cultural and economic factors--3. Factors that limit the number, Progress and quality of randomised controlled trials: A systematic review.--4. Results of clinical trials and systematic reviews: To whom do they apply?--5. The placebo effect: Methodological process and implications of a structured review--Part 11. Observational and qualitative methods: Introduction--6. Randomised and non-randomised studies: Threats to internal and external validity--7. A review of observational, quali-experimental and randomised study designs for the evaluation of the effectiveness of healthcare interventions--8. The potential use of routine datasets in health technology assessment--9. Using routine data to complement and enhance the results of randomised controlled trials--10. Qualitative methods in health Technology Assessment--Part 111: Measurement of benefit and cost: Introduction--11. Criteria for assessing patient based outcome measures for use in clinical trials--12.The use of health status measures in economic evaluation--13.Collecting resource use data for costing in clinical trials--14. Eliciting time preferences for health--15. The conduct and design of questionnaire surveys in healthcare research--Part V Analytical Methods: Introduction--16. Bayesian methods--17. Methods for evaluating organisation - or area-based health interventions--18. Handling uncertainty in economic evaluation--19. A review of the use of the main quality of life measures, and sample size determination for quality of life measures, particularly in cancer clinical trials.--20. Simultaneous analysis of quality of life and survival data--Part V: Consensus, reviews and meta-analysis-- Introduction--21. Publication and related biases--22. Meta-analysis in health technology assessment--23. Assessing the quality of reports of randomised trials included in Meta-Analyses: attitudes, practice, evidence and guides.--24. Consensus development methods, and their use in creating clinical guidelines.
This text provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art review of the available methods of health care evaluation.