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Harnessing Official Statistics by Deana Leadbeter Pdf
An examination of the range of sources of official statistics relevant to healthcare, and the benefits and potential pitfalls of using them in research and in everyday clinical work. It highlights the issues that need to be considered when accessing and using data, and shows how the reader can transform data from being on a system to something that is of practical use. The contributors include John Charlton, Steve Price, Sheila Anderson, Gillian Matthews and Colin Cryer.
Harnessing Information for Health Economics Analysis by Marilyn James,Elizabeth Stokes Pdf
Series Editor: Michael Rigby This completely up-to-date resource equips readers with practical tools to understand and apply health economic methods. It introduces the key economic tools and the data available that can assist an economic decision and covers a range of areas from primary care and national data to global indicators of health. The information presented is applicable to all economic issues - at individual practice or nationwide policy level. Harnessing Information for Health Economics Analysis is a vital handbook for all clinicians, managers, and policy makers and shapers who make decisions about planning, commissioning and delivering healthcare. It will also be of great value to health economists, and postgraduate students in health economics and related disciplines.
The rise of evidence-based healthcare has put emphasis on finding specific evidence. Trying to find exactly the right article you are looking for can be vital especially when meeting a tight deadline or trying to find evidence for a particular treatment. This book from the Harnessing Health Information series shows the reader how to find the exact article quickly and efficiently. Fully referenced, it includes handy information such as acronyms with full descriptions and the available search tools. It looks at how novice users can find information in a straightforward and friendly way.
Making Sense of Statistics in Healthcare by Anna Hart Pdf
Book is unique in being written for people who want to be able to make sense of published studies, or embark on their own studies, without getting bogged down by the details of how to use specific methods.
Basic Concepts in Statistics and Epidemiology by Theodore Harney MacDonald Pdf
This book is specifically designed to underpin the concepts of statistics and epidemiology. It is practical and easy to use and is ideal for people who can feel uncomfortable with mathematics.
Basic Statistics and Epidemiology by Antony Stewart Pdf
Most healthcare professionals need to be able to read and understand clinical evidence, and make a judgment on what treatments are effective. To do this, they need a basic grounding in statistics and epidemiology. This book aims to help readers by stimulating their interest and helping them understand the basics quickly and simply.
Using Information and Communication Technology in Healthcare by Stuart Tyrrell Pdf
Healthcare professionals are required to use an increasing range of technologies in everyday healthcare. This jargon-free text presents a comprehensive, practical guide including topics on hardware, software, databases, security and local area networks (LANs).
Immunisation is one of the few preventive interventions of undoubted and proven effectiveness...GPs are thoroughly convinced of the public health arguments in favour of immunization and regard it as an integral part of their clinical practice. This book is designed to help them plan provide develop and monitor a comprehensive immunisation service not only for their NHS patients but also if they wish on a private basis for travellers and for local companies. Good practice organisation is the key to providing high quality clinical and preventive services and this book is a notable and helpful contribution towards that good organisation. It should help even the most efficient doctors to ensure that they are providing the best managed and most profitable immunisation service they can - a service that should be welcomed by the patients it will benefit.' John Chisholm in the Foreword
Using the Internet in Healthcare by Stuart Tyrrell Pdf
Explaining each aspect of the Internet in a straightforward way, this text gives practical advice on how the Internet can aid doctors, nurses and managers in their daily work. With information for every level of understanding, this second edition reflects changes in the fast-moving field.
Information for Managing Healthcare Resources by Sheila Bullas,Dallas Ariotti Pdf
This text identifies the principal sources of information in healthcare and analyses information use in relation to organisational culture. It also explains developments for those with no prior specialist knowledge and gives numerous practical examples.
This is a basic introduction to evidence-based medicine describing the need for EMB and the tools used. The book guides the reader towards finding the right evidence and how to assess its value and quality, including a section on the Internet and how to make best use of it.
Research and Development for the NHS by Mark R. Baker,Simon Kirk Pdf
This new edition will be greatly welcomed by all researchers, managers, funders of research and development, postgraduate students, healthcare policy makers and implementers, as well as clinicians and academics. It is relevant for those in primary as well as secondary care. Fully updated and expanded, it gives a practical overview of the new NHS Research and Development Program. It incorporates the many changes since the previous edition including the programs on leadership and delivery. This new edition provides the comprehensive information and detailed sources required for anyone working in the NHS or in health services research.
Vision and Value in Health Information by Rigby Michael Pdf
Vision and Value in Health Information offers a significant challenge: to find a place for health information in the modernization of health services in the UK. It comprises a collection of key essays from eminent contributors on the innovative use and development of information in health care.
Population and Society by Clare Holdsworth,Nissa Finney,Alan Marshall,Paul Norman Pdf
"An excellent introduction to the study of population and its significance for many of the key social, political, cultural and environmental issues facing the world today. It covers population growth, ageing, migration and mobility, parenting, health inequalities, and much more... The authors do not shy away from areas of continuing debate, providing both sides of an argument and encouraging readers to follow up the original sources" - Tony Champion, Emeritus Professor of Population Geography, Centre for Urban, Regional & Development Studies, Newcastle University and Vice President, British Society for Population Studies, 2011-2013 Population and Society is an undergraduate introduction to population that explains the latest trends in population studies. The text provides a detailed and completely accessible overview that: situates demographic events - fertility, mortality and migration - within the context of broader social impacts and theorisations like social inequalities, individualisation and life course analysis uses global illustrative examples to demonstrate the importance of data and data interpretation in population studies is illustrated throughout with pedagogic features, like chapter opening summaries, suggestions for further readings and case study examples. This text will be widely used as the standard and most up-to-date text on population and society for courses across the social sciences.
