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Title Researching health care : designs, dilemmas, disciplines / edited by Jeanne Daly, Ian McDonald, and Evan Willis
Published London ; New York : Tavistock/Routledge, 1992

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Description x, 225 pages ; 23 cm
Contents Introduction: the problem as we saw it / Jeanne Daly and Ian McDonald -- Pt. I. Issues of policy. 1. The perspective of the policy maker on health care research and evaluation / David Hailey. 2. Cost-utility analyses in health care: present status and future issues / Jeff Richardson -- Pt. II. The randomised controlled trial. 3. Randomised controlled trials in health care research / David J. Newell. 4. The impact of clinical research on clinical practice / Jack Hirsh. 5. The clinician and the randomised controlled trial / Michael Jelinek -- Pt. III. Non-experimental quantitative study designs. 6. Broadening the scope of evaluation: why and how / Christel A. Woodward. 7. Advantages and limitations of the survey approach: understanding older people / John B. McKinlay. 8. Comparing alternative methodologies of social research: an overview / Jake M. Najman, John Morrison, Gail M. Williams and Margaret J. Andersen -- Pt. IV. Qualitative research methods
9. 'Don't mind him -- he's from Barcelona': qualitative methods in health studies / Robert Dingwall. 10. Applying the qualitative method to clinical care / David Silverman. 11. Why don't you ask them?: a qualitative research framework for investigating the diagnosis of cardiac normality / Jeanne Daly, Ian McDonald and Evan Willis -- Pt. V. Conclusion. 12. Research methods in health care -- a summing up / Ian McDonald and Jeanne Daly
Summary Symposium papers
Analysis Health services Assessment
Evaluation techniques
Health care
Overseas item
Research
Statistics
Notes Papers delivered at a symposium sponsored by the Australian Institute of Health, the Research and Development Grants Advisory Committee of the Australian Dept. of Community Services and Health, and the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Subject Medical care -- Research -- Evaluation -- Congresses.
Medical care -- Research -- Evaluation.
Medical care -- Research -- Methodology -- Congresses.
Medical care -- Research -- Methodology.
Research -- Design.
Health Services Research -- methods.
Research Design.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Author Daly, Jeanne.
McDonald, Ian G.
Willis, Evan, 1952-
LC no. 91036911
ISBN 0415070775
0415070783 (paperback)