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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
The Conduct and Design of Questionnaire Surveys in Healthcare Research
The Conduct and Design of Questionnaire Surveys in Healthcare Research
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Our aim in carrying out this literature review was to provide guidelines for best practice in the design and conduct of questionnaire surveys, especially on health-related topics. Identifying best practice involved a review of expert opinion as expressed in classic texts on survey methods and in theoretical papers on respondent behaviour, as well as synthesising empirical evidence from experiments on questionnaire design and administration. The primary objective in survey research is the collection of valid and reliable data from as many of the targeted individuals, and as representative a sample, as possible. However, limited resources often dictate a trade-off between the ideal and the optimal. No ...
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