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.
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.
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.
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