Understanding Health Care Outcomes Research, 2d ed.0763734411Understanding health care outcomes research, 2d ed. Ed. by Robert L. Kane. Jones & Bartlett 2006 404 pages $71.95 Paperback R853 Health outcomes research has become increasingly emphasized as a critical pursuit since the 1997 edition appeared. In introducing 13 chapters by colleagues with the U. of Minnesota, other US universities, and pharmaceutical companies, Kane (public health) reviews the importance of such research to quality of care, obstacles to it, key concepts, types of study designs, and conceptual modeling. He argues that randomized controlled trials A randomized controlled trial (RCT) is a scientific procedure most commonly used in testing medicines or medical procedures. RCTs are considered the most reliable form of scientific evidence because it eliminates all forms of spurious causality. are not the only valid scientific approach. Contributors address general and specific measures, analyses, research issues, and offer implementation guidelines guidelines, n.pl a set of standards, criteria, or specifications to be used or followed in the performance of certain tasks. . Cost-effectiveness cost-effectiveness pertaining to cost-effective. cost-effectiveness analysis a comparison of the relative cost-efficiencies of two or more ways of performing a task or achieving an objective. and ethics ethics, in philosophy, the study and evaluation of human conduct in the light of moral principles. Moral principles may be viewed either as the standard of conduct that individuals have constructed for themselves or as the body of obligations and duties that a are also treated. ([c] 2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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