The Advanced Handbook of Methods in Evidence Based Healthcare [Hardcover]

The `effectiveness revolution' both in research and clinical practice, has tested available methods for health services research to the extreme. How far can observational methods, routine data and qualitative methods be used in health care evaluation? What cost and outcome measures are appropriate, and how should data be gathered?

With the support of over two million pounds from the British Health Technology Assessment Research Programme, the research project for this Handbook has led to both a synthesis of all of the existing knowledge in these areas and an agenda for future debate and research.

The chapters and their authors have been selected through a careful process of peer review and provide a coherThe `effectiveness revolution' both in research and clinical practice, has tested available methods for health services research to the extreme. How far can observational methods, routine data and qualitative methods be used in health care evaluation? What cost and outcome measures are appropriate, and how should data be gathered?

With the support of over two million pounds from the British Health Technology Assessment Research Programme, the research project for this Handbook has led to both a synthesis of all of the existing knowledge in these areas and an agenda for future debate and research.

The chapters and their authors have been selected through a careful process of peer review and provide a coher`As books go, this is a real heavyweight. It is physically big, with 27 chapters running to over 500 pages. It is expensive, coming in at ?69. Yet it is heavyweight in another sense. Some of the chapter authors are heavyweights, leaders, in their fields and this shines through veryc learly in the text.

This book aims to provide readers with an insight into some of the most advanced methods involvedlZ