Non-Random Reflections

On Health Services Research: On the 25th Anniversary of Archie Cochrane's Effectiveness and Efficiency
1. Auflage 1997
ISBN: 978-0-7279-1151-3
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 488 g

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Maynard, Alan

Chalmers, Iain

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contributors vii
Foreword xiii

Acknowledgements xv

Introductory reminiscences 1

Archie Cochrane's legacy: an American perspective 3
Kerr L White

A reminiscence of Archie Cochrane 7
Richard Doll

Archie Cochrane: an appreciation 11
Dick Cohen

Archie and the Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust 14
Gordon McLachlan

``What have Communism and Catholicism against randomised controlled trials?'' 18
Andre Rougemont, Etienne Guberan

Some reactions to Effectiveness and Efficiency 21
Hugh F Thomas

Part 1: Epidemiology 29 Response rates in south Wales 1950--96: changing requirements for mass participation in human research 31
Julian Tudor Hart, George Davey Smith

Cochrane and the benefits of wine 58
Richard Doll

The epidemiology of asthma 75
Michael Burr

Part 2: Effectiveness 91

So what's so special about randomisation? 93
Jos Kleijnen, Peter Gøtzsche, Regina A Kunz, Andy D Oxman, Iain Chalmers

Cochrane and the benefits of aspirin 107
Peter Elwood

Social work: beyond control? 122
Geraldine Macdonald

Part 3: Efficiency 147

Health economics: has it fulfilled its potential? 149
Alan Maynard, Trevor A Sheldon

Part 4: Equity 167

Beyond effectiveness and efficiency.lies equality! 169
Alan Williams

Equitable distribution of the risks and benefits associated with medical innovations 184
William Silverman

Part 5: Evolution 195

Large-scale randomised evidence: trials and overviews 197
Rory Collins, Richard Peto, Richard Gray, Sarah Parish

The Cochrane Collaboration 231
Iain Chalmers, David Sackett, Chris Silagy

Improving the reporting of randomised controlled trials 250
David Moher, Jesse Berlin

Exploring lay perspectives on questions of effectiveness 272
Sandy Oliver

Cochrane's obituary 292

Index 295

Über Autor(innen)

Alan Keith Maynard was a British health economist. Born in Bebington, Maynard studied at the Universities of Newcastle upon Tyne and York. After a stint at the University of Exeter, he was appointed to the University of York in 1971. Iain Chalmers is the editor of Non-Random Reflections: On Health Services Research: On the 25th Anniversary of Archie Cochrane's Effectiveness and Efficiency, published by Wiley.