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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 Potential Use of Routine Datasets in Health Technology Assessment
The Potential Use of Routine Datasets in Health Technology Assessment
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The international growth of Health Technology Assessment (HTA) calls out for increasing levels of research and information beyond randomised controlled trials. In theory, routine data offer a considerable contribution, but they have been underused to date. There is a vicious circle of poor data and lack of use.
Routine data are identified by characteristics of regular and continuous collection, using standard definitions, with comprehensive coverage of the target group, service or technology, with some, usually considerable, degree of obligation to collect the data completely and regularly, and with collection at national or regional level.
HTA is considered in this chapter to include not only the measurement of efficacy ...
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