Non-Random Reflections On Health Services

Leading researchers in health care write about Archie Cochrane and his work, examining the legacy he left in research methods that have begun to revolutionise policy making and the delivery of health care today. Includes chapters on epidemiology, effectiveness, efficiency, equity, and evolution

Alan Keith Maynard was a British health economist. Born in Bebington, Maynard studied at the Universities of Newcastle upon Tyne and York. After a stint at the University of Exeter, he was appointed to the University of York in 1971. Iain Chalmers is the editor of Non-Random Reflections: On Health Services Research: On the 25th Anniversary of Archie Cochrane's Effectiveness and Efficiency, published by Wiley.

Contributors

vii

Foreword

xiii

Acknowledgements

xv

Introductory reminiscences

1

(2)

Archie Cochrane's legacy: an American perspective

3

(4)

Kerr L White

A reminiscence of Archie Cochrane

7

(4)

Richard Doll

Archie Cochrane: an appreciation

11

(3)

Dick Cohen

Archie and the Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust

14

(4)

Gordon McLachlan

``What have Communism and Catholicism against randomised controlled trials?''

18

(3)

Andre Rougemont

Etienne Guberan

Some reactions to Effectiveness and Efficiency

21

(8)

Hugh F Thomas

Part 1: Epidemiology

29

(62)

Response rates in south Wales 1950--96: changing requirements for mass participation in human research

31

(27)

Julian Tudor Hart

George Davey Smith

Cochrane and the benefits of wine

58

(17)

Richard Doll

The epidemiology of asthma

75

(16)

Michael Burr

Part 2: Effectiveness

91

(56)

So what's so special about randomisation?

93

(14)

Jos Kleijnen

Peter Gøtzsche

Regina A Kunz

Andy D Oxman

Iain Chalmers

Cochrane and the benefits of aspirin

107

(15)

Peter Elwood

Social work: beyond control?

122

(25)

Geraldine Macdonald

Part 3: Efficiency

147

(20)

Health economics: has it fulfilled its potential?

149

(18)

Alan Maynard

Trevor A Sheldon

Part 4: Equity

167

(28)

Beyond effectiveness and efficiency...lies equality!

169

(15)

Alan Williams

Equitable distribution of the risks and benefits associated with medical innovations

184

(11)

William Silverman

Part 5: Evolution

195

(97)

Large-scale randomised evidence: trials and overviews

197

(34)

Rory Collins

Richard Peto

Richard Gray

Sarah Parish

The Cochrane Collaboration

231

(19)

Iain Chalmers

David Sackett

Chris Silagy

Improving the reporting of randomised controlled trials

250

(22)

David Moher

Jesse Berlin

Exploring lay perspectives on questions of effectiveness

272

(20)

Sandy Oliver

Cochrane's obituary

292

(3)

Index

295

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Non-Random Reflections On Health Services Research: On the 25th Anniversary of Archie Cochrane's Effectiveness and Efficiency

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