Evaluating Palliative Care - Establishing the Evidence Base (Hardcover)

The past thirty years has seen a huge expansion in the provision of palliative care services. Because Palliative Medicine is a multidisciplinary specialty - combining the expertise of oncologists, anaesthetists, nurses, and many other therapeutic groups, the effectiveness of such treatment can be very difficult to measure. Additionally, research involving terminally ill patients and their carers can also present a number of practical and ethical problems. In spite of this, current health policy demands evidence of effectiveness and value for money of health service interventions at all levels of complexity, including the service level. Evaluating Palliative Care: Establishing the Evidence Base provides an introduction to the theory and practice of the evaluation of palliative care services. It examines the methodological issues involved in the evaluation of palliative care, and outlines a practical approach that is readily applicable to many other health care interventions. In particular, research issues involving terminally ill patients and their carers are analysed and discussed, and approaches suggested for future work.

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Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	March 1998
First published:	March 1998
Authors:	Margaret Robbins (Department of Palliative Medicine, Bristol Oncology Centre)
Dimensions:	233 x 156 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	188
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-262621-9
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > Medical equipment & techniques > Medical research Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > Epidemiology & medical statistics Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Anaesthetics > Pain & pain management Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Pharmacology > General Promotions
LSN:	0-19-262621-3
Barcode:	9780192626219

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