{"subjects": ["Methodology", "Outcome Assessment (Health Care)", "Methods", "Medical care", "Epidemiologic Methods", "Evaluation", "Health Services Research", "Health Care Outcome Assessment", "Medical care, evaluation"], "key": "/works/OL620268W", "title": "Assessment and Evaluation of Health and Medical Care", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL47591A"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "covers": [1182348], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Describes the variety of approaches available in the assessment and evaluation of medical care. Includes the principles of randomized controlled trials, case control studies, cohort studies and social surveys, and the value of qualitative methods in gaining an understanding of healthcare. Chapters also on measuring outcomes, assessing the economic value of treatments, meta-analysis and systematic reviews."}, "latest_revision": 6, "revision": 6, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-08T06:31:58.523431"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-01-16T04:46:56.404316"}}