1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450931703321

Titolo

The advanced handbook of methods in evidence based healthcare [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Andrew Stevens ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Thousand Oaks, Calif. ; ; London, : SAGE, c2001

ISBN

1-281-24041-9

9786611240417

1-84787-675-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (539 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

StevensAndrew, Dr.

Disciplina

362.1/0941

Soggetti

Evidence-based medicine - Great Britain

Medical care - Great Britain - Evaluation - Methodology

Medical innovations - Great Britain - Evaluation - Methodology

Medical technology - Great Britain - Evaluation - Methodology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Contributors; INTRODUCTION Methods in Evidence Based Healthcare and Health Technology Assessment: An Overview; Part I CLINICAL TRIALS; 1 Ethical Issues in the Design and Conduct of Randomised Controlled Trials; 2 Ethics of Clinical Trials: Social, Cultural and Economic Factors; 3 Factors that Limit the Number, Progress and Quality of Randomised Controlled Trials: A Systematic Review; 4 Results of Clinical Trials and Systematic Reviews: To Whom Do They Apply?; 5 The Placebo Effect: Methodological Process and Implications of a Structured Review

Part II OBSERVATIONAL AND QUALITATIVE METHODS6 Randomised and Non-Randomised Studies: Threats to Internal and External Validity; 7 A Review of Observational, Quasi-Experimental and Randomised Study Designs for the Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Healthcare Interventions; 8 The Potential Use of Routine Datasets in Health Technology Assessment; 9 Using Routine Data to Complement and Enhance the Results of Randomised Controlled Trials; 10 Qualitative Methods in Health Technology Assessment; Part III MEASUREMENT OF



BENEFIT AND COST

11 Criteria for Assessing Patient Based Outcome Measures for Use in Clinical Trials12 The Use of Health Status Measures in Economic Evaluation; 13 Collecting Resource Use Data for Costing in Clinical Trials; 14 Eliciting Time Preferences for Health; 15 The Conduct and Design of Questionnaire Surveys in Healthcare Research; Part IV ANALYTICAL METHODS; 16 Bayesian Methods; 17 Methods for Evaluating Organisation- or Area-Based Health Interventions; 18 Handling Uncertainty in Economic Evaluation

19 A Review of the Use of the Main Quality of Life Measures, and Sample Size Determination for Quality of Life Measures, Particularly in Cancer Clinical Trials20 Simultaneous Analysis of Quality of Life and Survival Data; Part V CONSENSUS, REVIEWS AND META-ANALYSIS; 21 Publication and Related Biases; 22 Meta-Analysis in Health Technology Assessment; 23 Assessing the Quality of Reports of Randomised Trials Included in Meta-Analyses: Attitudes, Practice, Evidence and Guides; 24 Consensus Development Methods, and their Use in Creating Clinical Guidelines

Part VI IDENTIFYING AND FILLING GAPS IN THE EVIDENCE25 Identifying New Healthcare Technologies; 26 Timing of Assessment of Fast-Changing Health Technologies; 27 Preliminary Economic Evaluation of Health Technologies; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This text provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art review of the available methods of health care evaluation.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789947803321

Autore

Pines Yuri

Titolo

The everlasting empire [[electronic resource] ] : the political culture of ancient China and its imperial legacy / / Yuri Pines

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, 2012

ISBN

1-280-49410-7

9786613589330

1-4008-4227-1

Edizione

[Core Textbook]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p.)

Disciplina

306.20951

Soggetti

Political culture - China - History

Political science - China - Philosophy - History

Imperialism - China - History

Ideology - China - History

China Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Ideal of "Great Unity" -- Chapter 2. The Monarch -- Chapter 3. The Literati -- Chapter 4. Local Elite -- Chapter 5. The People -- Chapter 6. Imperial Political Culture in the Modern Age -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Established in 221 BCE, the Chinese empire lasted for 2,132 years before being replaced by the Republic of China in 1912. During its two millennia, the empire endured internal wars, foreign incursions, alien occupations, and devastating rebellions--yet fundamental institutional, sociopolitical, and cultural features of the empire remained intact. The Everlasting Empire traces the roots of the Chinese empire's exceptional longevity and unparalleled political durability, and shows how lessons from the imperial past are relevant for China today. Yuri Pines demonstrates that the empire survived and adjusted to a variety of domestic and external challenges through a peculiar combination of rigid ideological premises and their flexible implementation. The empire's major political actors and neighbors shared its fundamental



ideological principles, such as unity under a single monarch--hence, even the empire's strongest domestic and foreign foes adopted the system of imperial rule. Yet details of this rule were constantly negotiated and adjusted. Pines shows how deep tensions between political actors including the emperor, the literati, local elites, and rebellious commoners actually enabled the empire's basic institutional framework to remain critically vital and adaptable to ever-changing sociopolitical circumstances. As contemporary China moves toward a new period of prosperity and power in the twenty-first century, Pines argues that the legacy of the empire may become an increasingly important force in shaping the nation's future trajectory.