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 |
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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 |
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Evaluation techniques |
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Health care |
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Overseas item |
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Research |
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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.
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Medical care -- Research -- Evaluation.
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Medical care -- Research -- Methodology -- Congresses.
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Medical care -- Research -- Methodology.
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Research -- Design.
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Health Services Research -- methods.
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Research Design.
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Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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Author |
Daly, Jeanne.
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McDonald, Ian G.
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Willis, Evan, 1952-
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LC no. |
91036911 |
ISBN |
0415070775 |
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0415070783 (paperback) |
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