Health Services Research Methods A Guide to

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.

Nick Black and Barnaby Reeves are the authors of Health Services Research Methods: A Guide to Best Practice, published by Wiley.

Contributors
Foreword
Researching health services
measurement of benefits and costs
Patient-assessed outcome measures
The use of health-related quality of life measures in economic evaluation
Collecting resource use data in clinical studies
Designing and using patient and staff questionnaires
Methods of evaluating health care
Choosing between randomised and non-randomised studies
Comparison of effect sizes derived from randomised and non-randomised studies
Factors that limit the number, quality, and progress of randomised trials
Ehics of randomised trials
Implications of sociocultural contexts for ethics of randomised trials
Evaluation of health care interventions at area dn organisation level
Qualitative methos in health services research
Statistical methods
Statistical methods: good practice and identifying opportunities for innovation
An introduction to bayesian methods in health services research
Quality of life aassessment and survival data
Presenting, interpreting, and synthesising evidence
Systematic reviews of randomised trials
Handling uncertainty in economic evaluations of health care interventions
Consensus development methods for creating clinical guidelines
Future developments
Horizon scanning: early identification of new health care technologies
Evaluating new and fast-changing technologies
Research implementation methods
Appendices
I What does "systematic" mean for reviews of methods?
Ii Different types of systematic review in health services research
Index
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Health Services Research Methods A Guide to Best Practice

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