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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
Bayesian Methods
Bayesian Methods
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Bayesian methods allow the explicit incorporation of external evidence and judgement into the analysis and interpretation of a health technology assessment, and extend naturally to making predictions, designing studies, and analysing policy decisions. We review the literature concerning Bayesian ideas in general, and as specifically applied to randomised controlled trials, observational studies and evidence synthesis. Contrast is made with conventional statistical methods, and suggestions made for the future assimilation of the ideas into health technology assessment.
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Much of the standard statistical methodology used in health technology assessment (HTA) revolves around that for the classical randomised controlled trial: these include power calculations at the design stage, methods for controlling Type I errors within sequential monitoring, calculation ...
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