Effectiveness And Efficiency: Random Reflections on Health Services - Softcover

Cochrane, A.L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 185315394X ISBN 13: 9781853153945

Publisher: Hodder Education Publishers, 1999

Synopsis

Originally published in 1972, Archie Cochrane's classic text has had a profound influence on the practice of medicine and on the evaluation of medical interventions. He was the first to set out clearly the vital importance of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) in assessing the effectiveness of treatments, and his work led directly to the setting-up of the Cochrane Collaboration, now a world-wide endeavour dedicated to tracking down, evaluating and synthesising RCTs in all areas of medicine. The message contained in this book is as relevant to clinicians, healthcare managers and policy-makers now as it was in the 1970s.

About this title

About the Author

Archie L. Cochrane was well-respected in his field.

Review

My life and thinking have been transformed in many ways as a result of this influential book.

Chris Silagy, Chair of the Cochrane Collaboration Steering Group, 1999

This book, based on A. L. Cochrane's lectures of 1972, is surely one of the most celebrated books published in modern medicine, and remains vitally interesting more than 30 years after it was first published.
Professor Richard Ashcroft, Biosocieties, 2007

Edition details

• Publisher: Hodder Education Publishers
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 185315394X
• ISBN 13: 9781853153945
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 136