The advanced handbook of methods in evidence based healthcare (SAGE Publications, 2001)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Cover; Contents; Contributors; INTRODUCTION Methods in Evidence Based Healthcare and Health Technology Assessment: An Overview; Part I CLINICAL TRIALS; 1 Ethical Issues in the Design and Conduct of Randomised Controlled Trials; 2 Ethics of Clinical Trials: Social, Cultural and Economic Factors; 3 Factors that Limit the Number, Progress and Quality of Randomised Controlled Trials: A Systematic Review; 4 Results of Clinical Trials and Systematic Reviews: To Whom Do They Apply?; 5 The Placebo Effect: Methodological Process and Implications of a Structured Review
The Advanced Handbook of Methods in Evidence Based Healthcare provides a review of the available methods of health care evaluation It is the product of the British Health Technology Assessment Research Programme