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The advanced handbook of methods in evidence based healthcare /
This text provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art review of the available methods of health care evaluation.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. :
SAGE Publications,
2001.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contributors
- Introduction: Methods in Evidence Based Healthcare and Health Technology Assessment: An Overview
- pt. I. 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 Limits 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
- pt. II. Observational and Qualitative Methods
- Introduction
- 6. Randomised and Non-Randomised Studies: Threats to Internal and External Validity
- 7. A Review of Observational, Quasi-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
- pt. III. 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
- pt. IV. 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
- pt. 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
- pt. VI. Identifying and Filling Gaps in the Evidence
- Introduction
- 25. Identifying New Healthcare Technologies
- 26. Timing of Assessment of Fast-Changing Health Technologies
- 27. Preliminary Economic Evaluation of Health Technologies
- Index.