Tabla de Contenidos:
  • ""Modern Methods of Clinical Investigation""; ""Copyright""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""List of Abbreviations""; ""1 Medical Technology Development: An Introduction to the Innovation-Evaluation Nexus ""; ""PUTTING CLINICAL EVALUATION IN CONTEXT""; ""ISSUES IN INNOVATION AND EVALUATION: THE CASE OF STABLE ANGINA PECTORIS""; ""Beta-Blockers""; ""Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting""; ""PTCA Catheter Equipment""; ""Evaluative Shortcomings in Technology Development""; ""IMPROVING THE INNOVATION-EVALUATION NEXUS""; ""The Selection of Endpoints in Evaluative Research""
  • ""The Selection of Methods for Clinical Investigation""""Policy Mechanisms for Improving Developmental Decision Making""; ""REFERENCES""; ""2 The Selection of Endpoints in Evaluative Research ""; ""SURROGATE VERSUS CLINICAL ENDPOINTS""; ""CLINICAL ENDPOINTS""; ""SURROGATE ENDPOINTS""; ""REFERENCES""; ""3 Advances in Health Status Measurement: The Potential to Improve Experimental and Non-Experimental Data Collection""; ""THE CONDUCT OF CLINICAL TRIALS""; ""MEASUREMENT OF QUALITY OF LIFE AND OF HEALTH STATUS""; ""INCLUSION OF QUALITY OF LIFE AND HEALTH STATUS MEASURES IN CLINICAL TRIALS""
  • ""FOUR PROBLEMS REGARDING THE MEASUREMENT OF HEALTH STATUS IN CLINICAL TRIALS""""REFERENCES""; ""4 What Is Outcomes Research? ""; ""WHICH RATE IS RIGHT?""; ""ENGAGING PATIENTS IN THE DECISION PROCESS""; ""EXTENDING ASSESSMENT TO ALL RELEVANT TREATMENT THEORIES""; ""THE EVALUATIVE CLINICAL SCIENCES AND THE FUTURE OF MEDICINE""; ""REFERENCES""; ""5 Strengths and Weaknesses of Health Insurance Data Systems for Assessing Outcomes""; ""STRENGTHS""; ""System-Wide, Population-Based Data""; ""Efficacy versus Effectiveness""; ""Large Numbers and Time Series""; ""Events Unaffected by Recall""
  • ""Unobtrusive Nature""""Multiple Comparisons""; ""Design Flexibility""; ""Potential for Multiple Projects""; ""Focus on Risks""; ""Clinical Decision Making""; ""WEAKNESSES""; ""Structural Limitations""; ""Bias Due to Reporting and Coding""; ""Bias Due to Differential Contact""; ""Benefits of Treatment""; ""CONTROVERSIAL AREAS""; ""Risk Adjustment""; ""Outcome Measures""; ""EXPANDING DATA BASES""; ""Record Linkage""; ""Primary Data Collection""; ""DISCUSSION""; ""REFERENCES""; ""6 Prescription-Event Monitoring: An Example of Total Population Post-Marketing Drug Surveillance ""
  • """"THE NUMBERS GAME""""""VOLUNTARY REPORTING SYSTEMS""; ""POST-MARKETING SURVEILLANCE""; ""PRESCRIPTION-EVENT MONITORING""; ""COMPARATIVE STUDIES OF NSAIDS""; ""POST-MARKETING SURVEILLANCE AND POST-MARKETING CLINICAL TRIALS""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""REFERENCES""; ""7 The Role of Decision Analysis in the Translation of Research Findings into Clinical Practice ""; ""DECISION ANALYSIS AT THE INTERFACE BETWEEN CLINICAL INVESTIGATION AND CLINICAL PRACTICE""; ""WHAT DECISION ANALYSIS IS""; ""THE LIMITATIONS OF DECISION ANALYSIS: WHAT IT IS NOT""