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Non-Random Reflections
On Health Services Research: On the 25th Anniversary of Archie Cochrane's Effectiveness and Efficiency
Alan Maynard (Edited by), Iain Chalmers (Edited by)
9780727911513, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 1 March 1997
320 pages
23.4 x 15.5 x 1.7 cm, 0.499 kg
Leading researchers in health care write about Archie Cochrane and his work, examining the legacy he left in research methods that have begun to revolutionise policy making and the delivery of health care today. Includes chapters on epidemiology, effectiveness, efficiency, equity, and evolution
Contributors vii Foreword xiii Acknowledgements xv Introductory reminiscences 1 Archie Cochrane's legacy: an American perspective 3 A reminiscence of Archie Cochrane 7 Archie Cochrane: an appreciation 11 Archie and the Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust 14 ``What have Communism and Catholicism against randomised controlled trials?'' 18 Part 1: Epidemiology 29 Response rates in south Wales 1950--96: changing requirements for mass participation in human research 31 Cochrane and the benefits of wine 58 The epidemiology of asthma 75 Part 2: Effectiveness 91 So what's so special about randomisation? 93 Cochrane and the benefits of aspirin 107 Social work: beyond control? 122 Part 3: Efficiency 147 Health economics: has it fulfilled its potential? 149 Part 4: Equity 167 Equitable distribution of the risks and benefits associated with medical innovations 184 Part 5: Evolution 195 Large-scale randomised evidence: trials and overviews 197 The Cochrane Collaboration 231 Improving the reporting of randomised controlled trials 250 Cochrane's obituary 292 Index 295
Kerr L White
Richard Doll
Dick Cohen
Gordon McLachlan
Andre Rougemont, Etienne Guberan
Some reactions to Effectiveness and Efficiency 21
Hugh F Thomas
Julian Tudor Hart, George Davey Smith
Richard Doll
Michael Burr
Jos Kleijnen, Peter Gøtzsche, Regina A Kunz, Andy D Oxman, Iain Chalmers
Peter Elwood
Geraldine Macdonald
Alan Maynard, Trevor A Sheldon
Beyond effectiveness and efficiency...lies equality! 169
Alan Williams
William Silverman
Rory Collins, Richard Peto, Richard Gray, Sarah Parish
Iain Chalmers, David Sackett, Chris Silagy
David Moher, Jesse Berlin
Exploring lay perspectives on questions of effectiveness 272
Sandy Oliver
Subject Areas: Medicine: general issues [MB]
