Evaluating improvement and implementation for health

✍ Scribed by Øvretveit, John

Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Open University Press
Year: 2014
Tongue: English
Leaves: 242
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Evaluating Improvement and Implementation for Health describes modern evaluation methods in healthcare and policymaking, and challenges some of the assumptions of the evidence based healthcare movement.

Abstract:

This book examines different approaches to evaluating treatment, health service delivery, public health programmes and policy implementation. Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Half title
Title
Copyright
Praise for this book
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Part I Introduction: Concepts
1 Evaluating health interventions, improvements and their implementation
2 Evaluation tools and concepts
3 Quick start
4 Designs
Part II Introduction: Example evaluations --
do they answer users' questions?
5 Evaluating interventions to patients and patient performance
6 Evaluating interventions to professionals and performance evaluations
7 Evaluating interventions to health services and performance
8 Evaluating interventions to health systems and performance. 9 Evaluating population health interventions and public health service performancePart III Introduction: Evaluation subjects
10 Evaluating implementation
11 Evaluating digital health technologies
12 Evaluating complex social interventions
13 Evaluating return on investment and value improvements
14 Economic evaluation
Glossary
References
Index.

✦ Subjects

Medical care;Evaluation.;POLITICAL SCIENCE;Public Policy;Social Security.;POLITICAL SCIENCE;Public Policy;Social Services & Welfare.;Health planning.;Health services accessibility.;Medical care;Quality control.

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