Evaluating Clinical and Public Health Interventions

Whether you are evaluating the effectiveness of a drug, a medical device, a behavioral intervention, a community mobilization, or even a new law, this is the book for you. Written in plain language, it simplifies the process of designing interventions, analyzing the data, and publishing the results. Because the choice of research design depends on the nature of the intervention, the book covers randomized and nonrandomized designs, prospective and retrospective studies, planned clinical trials and observational studies. In addition to reviewing standard statistical analysis, the book has easy-to-follow explanations of cutting edge techniques for evaluating interventions, including propensity score analysis, instrumental variable analysis, interrupted time series analysis and sensitivity analysis. All techniques are illustrated with up-to-date examples from medical and public health literature. This will be essential reading for a wide range of healthcare professionals involved in research as well as those more specifically interested in public health issues and epidemiology.

ISBN 0521735599   Pages 176 ISBN13 9780521735599 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 390 Publisher Cambridge University Press   Published in Cambridge Imprint Cambridge University Press   Height (mm) 246 Format Paperback   Width (mm) 189 Publication date 29 Apr 2010   Spine width (mm) 10 DEWEY 362.1072   Academic level Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC22

1		Introduction		1
2		Interventions		15
3		Evaluating an intervention		23
4		Randomized designs		47
5		Nonrandomized studies		61
6		Statistical analysis of intervention trials		73
7		Methods for adjusting for baseline differences between treatment groups		101
8		Time series analysis		128
9		Special topics		135
10		Research to action		154
11		Conclusion		158
		Index		159

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