Health Services Research Methods
A Guide to Best Practice
1. Auflage Oktober 1998
284 Seiten, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
ISBN:
978-0-7279-1275-6
John Wiley & Sons
An up to date account of all that is known about the key methods used in health services research. It describes the uses and limitations of the principal methods based on the findings of the NHS Health Technology Assessment Programme. Each chapter makes suggestions for best practice.
Contributors.
Foreword.
1.Researching health services.
Part one: measurement of benefits and costs.
2.Patient-assessed outcome measures.
3.The use of health-related quality of life measures in economic
evaluation.
4.Collecting resource use data in clinical studies.
5.Designing and using patient and staff questionnaires.
Part two: Methods of evaluating health care.
6.Choosing between randomised and non-randomised studies.
7.Comparison of effect sizes derived from randomised and
non-randomised studies.
8.Factors that limit the number, quality, and progress of
randomised trials.
9.Ehics of randomised trials.
10.Implications of sociocultural contexts for ethics of
randomised trials.
11.Evaluation of health care interventions at area dn
organisation level.
12.Qualitative methos in health services research.
Part three: Statistical methods.
13.Statistical methods: good practice and identifying
opportunities for innovation.
14.An introduction to bayesian methods in health services
research.
15.Quality of life aassessment and survival data.
Part four: Presenting, interpreting, and synthesising
evidence.
16.Systematic reviews of randomised trials.
17.Handling uncertainty in economic evaluations of health care
interventions.
18.Consensus development methods for creating clinical
guidelines.
Part five: Future developments.
19.Horizon scanning: early identification of new health care
technologies.
20.Evaluating new and fast-changing technologies.
21.Research implementation methods.
Appendices.
I What does "systematic" mean for reviews of methods?.
Ii Different types of systematic review in health services
research.
Index
Foreword.
1.Researching health services.
Part one: measurement of benefits and costs.
2.Patient-assessed outcome measures.
3.The use of health-related quality of life measures in economic
evaluation.
4.Collecting resource use data in clinical studies.
5.Designing and using patient and staff questionnaires.
Part two: Methods of evaluating health care.
6.Choosing between randomised and non-randomised studies.
7.Comparison of effect sizes derived from randomised and
non-randomised studies.
8.Factors that limit the number, quality, and progress of
randomised trials.
9.Ehics of randomised trials.
10.Implications of sociocultural contexts for ethics of
randomised trials.
11.Evaluation of health care interventions at area dn
organisation level.
12.Qualitative methos in health services research.
Part three: Statistical methods.
13.Statistical methods: good practice and identifying
opportunities for innovation.
14.An introduction to bayesian methods in health services
research.
15.Quality of life aassessment and survival data.
Part four: Presenting, interpreting, and synthesising
evidence.
16.Systematic reviews of randomised trials.
17.Handling uncertainty in economic evaluations of health care
interventions.
18.Consensus development methods for creating clinical
guidelines.
Part five: Future developments.
19.Horizon scanning: early identification of new health care
technologies.
20.Evaluating new and fast-changing technologies.
21.Research implementation methods.
Appendices.
I What does "systematic" mean for reviews of methods?.
Ii Different types of systematic review in health services
research.
Index
Nick Black and Barnaby Reeves are the authors of Health Services Research Methods: A Guide to Best Practice, published by Wiley.
