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9780415070782

Researching Health Care

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415070782

  • ISBN10:

    0415070783

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1992-09-01
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

The health care system is under intense pressure to change, but deeply rooted disciplinary preconceptions have hampered relevant research. To begin constructive change, it will be necessary for all parties with a stake in the outcome to understand the issues and the options. This collection addresses these issues, evaluates the health disciplines, and weighs the strengths and weaknesses of different research methods. The editors concentrate on experimental method, surveys and qualitative method, aiming to develop a multidisciplinary criteria for assessing scientific rigor. This collection contributes to the proper evaluation of research grant proposals so that the direction of research is correctly targeted. "Researching Health Care" is invaluable to all health care policy researchers and planners.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: the problem as we saw itp. 1
Issues of policyp. 13
The perspective of the policy maker on health care research and evaluationp. 15
Cost-utility analyses in health care: present status and future issuesp. 21
The randomised controlled trialp. 45
Randomised controlled trials in health care researchp. 47
The impact of clinical research on clinical practicep. 62
The clinician and the randomised controlled trialp. 76
Non-experimental quantitative study designsp. 91
Broadening the scope of evaluation: why and howp. 93
Advantages and limitations of the survey approach: understanding older peoplep. 114
Comparing alternative methodologies of social research: an overviewp. 138
Qualitative research methodsp. 159
'Don't mind him - he's from Barcelona': qualitative methods in health studiesp. 161
Applying the qualitative method to clinical carep. 176
Why don't you ask them?: a qualitative research framework for investigating the diagnosis of cardiac normalityp. 189
Conclusionp. 207
Research methods in health care - a summing upp. 209
Name indexp. 217
Subject indexp. 222
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