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The `effectiveness revolution' both in research and clinical practice, has tested available methods for health services research to the extreme. How far can observational methods, routine data and qualitative methods be used in health care evaluation? What cost and outcome measures are appropriate, and how should data be gathered? With the support of over two million pounds from the British Health Technology Assessment Research Programme, the research project for this Handbook has led to both a synthesis of all of the existing knowledge in these areas and an agenda for future debate and research. The chapters and their authors have been selected through a careful process of peer review and provide a coher
Using Routine Data to Complement and Enhance the Results of Randomised Controlled Trials
Using Routine Data to Complement and Enhance the Results of Randomised Controlled Trials
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This chapter considers ways of using routinely collected data as a means of enhancing information from clinical trials. This may be done through the sharpening of treatment comparisons – either by using the routine data as the entire basis of analysis in situations in which ethical or other constraints mean that trials are not feasible, or as a supplement to trial data, for example during subsequent meta-analysis. Alternatively, such data may be used as a means of exploring the impact of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) on clinical practice and patient outcomes through an examination of the ...
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