Methodological Issues for Health Care Surveys.

1987 ◽  
Vol 82 (400) ◽  
pp. 1189
Author(s):  
Donna Brogan ◽  
Brenda G. Cox ◽  
Steven B. Cohen
1986 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 631
Author(s):  
Daniel Kasprzyk ◽  
Brenda G. Cox ◽  
Steven B. Cohen

2011 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 239-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. McCrone

Background:Investment in innovative mental health care services requires the use of scarce resources that could be used in alternative ways. Economic evaluation is essential to ensure that such an investment is appropriately compared with investment elsewhere.Method:A non-systematic review of mental health evaluations identifies key methodological issues pertaining to economic studies.Results:Economic evaluations require the measurement and combination of costs and outcomes, and clarity about how this measurement is undertaken is required. Regarding costs, important considerations relate to the perspective to be taken (e.g., health service or societal), method of measurement (patient self-report or use of databases) and valuation (actual costs, fees or expenditure). Decision makers frequently need to compare evidence both within and between clinical areas and therefore there is a tension between the use of condition specific and generic outcome measures. Quality-adjusted life years are frequently used in economic evaluations, but their appropriateness in mental health care studies is still debated.Conclusions:Economic evaluations in the area of mental health care are increasing in number and it is essential that researchers continue to develop and improve methods used to conduct such studies.


2016 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 395-404
Author(s):  
A.I. Lozovoj ◽  
L. N. Derecha ◽  
V. V. Myasoedov ◽  
V. A. Olkhovskiу

At present there is an urgent need for developing and improving normative and legal documents regulating the activity of forensic expert institutions of different departments while conducting comprehensive examinations. The needs of expert practice continuously require more thorough development for the order of conducting interdepartmental comprehensive examinations, specification and official explanation of issues connected with the ways of coordinating experts ’ activity, the order of their interaction at various stages of the expert study, forms of the expert panels’ operation, etc. The article considers peculiarities of the activity offorensic expert institutions’ within the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Health Care of Ukraine, methodological issues of conducting a comprehensive forensic medical, forensic criminalistic and forensic motortechnical (vehicular and traceological) examinations, the ways of optimizing the interdepartmental interaction while conducting forensic expert activity of these forensic expert institutions, legal and organizational problems of regulating their forensic expert activity. The article emphasizes the need to improve this activity by improving the legal support and efficiency of the existing system for the organization of forensic expert activity of forensic expert institutions within the the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Health Care of Ukraine.


1993 ◽  
Vol 10 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 91-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jim Finlay ◽  
Paul C. Thistlethwaite

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