| Description |
xxx, 507 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Methods in evidence based healthcare and health technology -- Assessment - An Overview -- Part one: clinical trials -- Introduction / Richard J Lilford and Andrew Stevens -- Ethical issues in the design and conduct of randomized controlled trials / Richard J Lilford, Sarah Edwards, David Braunholtz, Jennifer Jackson, Jim Thornton and Jenny Hewison -- Ethics of clinical trials / Richard E Ashcroft -- Social, cultural and economic factors -- Factors that limit the number, progress and quality of randomized controlled trials / Sue Ross, Carl Counsell, William J Gillespie, Adrian Grant, Robin Prescrott, Ian Russell, Iain Colthart, Sandra Kiauka, Daphne Russell and Sue Shepard -- A systematic review -- Results of clinical trials and systematic reviews / Dianne O'Connell, Paul P Glasziou, Suzanne Hill, Jasminka Sarunac, Julia Lowe and David Henry -- To whom do they apply? -- The placebo effect / Rosemary Crow, Heather Gage, Sarah E Hampson, Jo Hart, Alan C Kimber and Hilary Thomas -- Methodological process and implications of a structured review -- Part two: observational and qualitative methods -- Introduction / Ray Fitzpatrick -- Randomized and non-randomized studies / Colin Sanderson, Martin McKee, Annie Britton, Nicholas Black, Klim McPherson and Chris Bain -- Threats to internal and external validity -- A review of observational, quasi-experimental and randomized study designs for the evaluation of the effectiveness of healthcare interventions / Barnaby Reeves, Rachel MacLehose, Ian Harvey, Trevor Sheldon, Ian Russell and Andrew McLaren Spiers Black -- The potential use of routine data sets in health technology assessment / James Raftery, Andrew Stevens and Paul Roderick -- Using routine data to complement and enhance the results of randomized controlled trials / James Lewsey, Gordon Murray, Alastair H Leyland and Andrew Boddy -- Qualitative methods in health technology assessment / Elizabeth Murphy and Robert Dingwall -- Part three: measurement of benefit and cost -- Introduction / John Brazier -- Criteria for assessing patient-based outcome measures for use in clinical trials / Ray Fitzpatrick, Claire Davey, Martin Buxton and David Jones -- The use of health status measures in economic evaluation / John Brazier, Mark Deverill and Colin Green -- Collecting resource use data for costing in clinical trials / Katharine Johnstone, Martin Buxton, David Jones and Ray Fitzpatrick -- Eliciting time preferences for health / John Cairns and Marjon van der Pol -- The conduct and design of questionnaire surveys in healthcare research / Elaine McColl, Ann Jacoby, Lois Thomas, Jennifer Soutter, Claire Bamford, Nick Steen, Roger Thomas, Emma Harvey, Andrew Garratt and John Bond -- Part four: analytical methods -- Introduction / Keith R Abrams -- Bayesian methods / David Spiegelhalter, Jonathan Myles, David Jones and Keith Abrams -- Methods for evaluating organization or area-based health interventions / Martin Gulliford, Obioha C Ukoummunne, Susan Chinn, Jonathan Sterne, Peter Burney and Allan Donner -- Handling uncertainty in economic evaluation / Andrew Briggs and Alastair Gray -- A review of the use of the main quality of life measures, and sample size determination for quality of life measures, particularly in cancer trials / Michael Campbell, Steven A Julious, Sarah Walker, Steve George and David Machin -- Simultaneous assessment of quality of life and survival data / Lucinda Billingham, Keith Abrams and David Jone -- Part five: consensus, reviews and meta-analysis -- Introduction / Andrew Stevens and Keith R Abrams -- Publication and related biases / Fuijan Song, Alison Eastwood, Simon Gilbody, Lelia Buley and Alex Sutton -- Meta-analysis in health technology assessment / Alexander Sutton, David Jones, Keith Abrams, Trevor Sheldon and Fujian Song -- Assessing the quality of reports of randomized trials included in meta-analyses / David Moher, Terry Klassen, Alison Jones Ba'Pham, Deborah Cook, Alejandro Jada, Peter Tugwell and Michael Moher -- Attitudes, practice, evidence and guides -- Consensus development methods, and their use in creating clinical guidelines / Nick Black, Maggie Murphy, Donna Lamping, Martin McKee, Colin Sanderson, Janet Askham and Theresa Marteau -- Part six: identifying and filling gaps in the evidence -- Introduction / Andrew Stevens -- Identifying new health care technologies / Glenn Robert, Andrew Stevens and John Gabbay -- Timing of assessment of fast-changing health technologies / Graham Mowatt, Adrian Grant, D Jane Bower, John A Brebner, John Cairns and Lorna McKee -- Preliminary economic evaluation of health technologies / Gareth Harper, Joy Townsend and Martin Buxton |
| Subject |
Evidence-based medicine -- Great Britain.
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Evidence-based medicine. |
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Great Britain. |
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Medical care -- Great Britain -- Evaluation -- Methodology.
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Medical care. |
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Evaluation. |
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Methodology. |
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Medical technology -- Great Britain -- Evaluation -- Methodology.
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Medical technology. |
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Medical innovations -- Great Britain -- Evaluation -- Methodology.
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Medical innovations. |
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Medical care. |
| Added Author |
Stevens, Andrew, Dr.
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| Added Title |
Methods in evidence based healthcare |
| ISBN |
0761961445 |
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