Jeanne Daly, Ian Mcdonald, Evan Willis

Researching Health Care (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

First Published in 1992. Health care is currently under intense pressure both to be cost-effective and to deliver a service its users want. This text is an important contribution to the debate about the most appropriate research method for evaluating its effectiveness.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000082876
• Artikelnr.: 59221639

Autorenporträt

Jean Daly is a Research Fellow in the Sociology Department at La Trobe University, Melbourne. Ian McDonald is a practising cardiologist and Director of the Cardiac Investigation Unit, St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne.

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: the problem as we saw it/Jeanne Daly and Ian McDonald
Part 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
Part 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
Part 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
Part 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
Part V. Conclusion. 12. Research methods in health care
a summing up/Ian McDonald and Jeanne Daly
Name index
Subject index.