Overview
- Collates current thinking on how best to deliver health care from multiple disciplines
- Familiarizes readers with core concepts & theories of health services, including data types
- Presents a timely summation of the entire field of health services research
- Represents the work of leading international authors, editors & advisory board experts
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Health Services Research (HEALTHSR)
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About this book
Comparative Effectiveness Research presents a series of chapters of relevance including introductions to areas that are being incorporated when comparing treatments, country-specific applications, patient-centred approaches, and modern methods. Included are chapters on the following areas that are being considered in treatment comparisons: ethics, economics and costs, implementation science, modern payment schemes (coverage with evidence development), and priority setting. Country-specific examples include an overview chapter on national approaches from various countries in Europe, Australia, and Canada, as well as specific chapters on comparative effectiveness research in Brazil and in the United States. The focus on the individual patient is described through chapters on patient-centred comparative effectiveness research, individualized treatment, the link with personalized medicine, and incorporating patient and public inputfor treatment. Methodological chapters include overviews of data sources, study designs, new statistical methods of combining results, the link with evidence-based medicine, specific issues when comparing drug and non-drug technologies, and dissemination of results.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Adrian Levy, PhD, is professor of epidemiology and health services research working at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He commenced his academic career working for the Quebec Council for Health Technology Assessment doing applied health research on real world use of health technologies. Dr. Levy is also the nominated principal investigator for the Maritime Strategy for Patient Oriented Research SUPPORT Unit. This initiative, co-funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, offers research infrastructure designed to promote patient-centred outcomes and health services research in Canada’s three Maritime provinces. The central goals include advancing research on health systems, knowledge translation and implementation of healthcare transformation, and implementing research at the point of care.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Comparative Effectiveness Research in Health Services
Editors: Adrian Levy, Boris Sobolev
Series Title: Health Services Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7600-0
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Medicine, Reference Module Medicine
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-7599-7Published: 22 March 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4899-7600-0Published: 21 March 2016
Series ISSN: 2511-8293
Series E-ISSN: 2511-8307
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 356
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour
Topics: Health Administration, Social Policy, Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences