Healthcare Evaluation (Fundamentals of Applied Research) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 144624928X ISBN 13: 9781446249284

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2012

Synopsis

Health evaluation has become increasingly important in recent years as policy makers, health professionals and health researchers become more concerned with the rigorous assessment of healthcare policies, health interventions and health research. This important volume, edited by Barker Bausell, will be a must-read for anyone interested in the methodological fundamentals of how best to design, carry out and analyse health evaluation studies, and anyone interested in making healthcare policy and health research more effective.

This collection includes key publications on the topic of health evaluation, focusing primarily on four themes: evaluation theory and approaches to the process of evaluation, methods and design considerations, statistical issues and exemplary case studies. As part of the Fundamentals of Applied Research series, this four-volume major work offers an overview of seminal articles in the field of health evaluation that are designed to enable health professionals and their students to learn about, interpret and ultimately undertake evaluation studies in their own specialist fields.

About this title

About the Author:

R. Barker Bausell, a recently retired professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, was one of the first investigators to contrast tutoring to classroom instruction under controlled, randomized conditions. He also experimentally manipulated teacher experience, teacher training, teacher knowledge, parental teaching, and numerous other schooling variables which served as the basis for his recent book: Too Simple To Fail: A Case for Educational Change. He has served as the editor in chief of the peer-reviewed journal Evaluation and the Health Professions for over three decades and is the author of several other books, including: Snake Oil Science; Power Analysis for Experimental Research, A Practical Guide for the Biological, Medical and Social Sciences; Designing Meaningful Experiments: 40 Steps to Becoming a Scientist; and A Practical Guide to Conducting Empirical Research.

About this edition

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 144624928X
• ISBN 13: 9781446249284
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 1720
• Editor: Bausell R Barker