How Do You Know Which Health Care Effectiveness Research You Can Trust? A Guide to Study Design for the Perplexed

Prev Chronic Dis. 2015 Jun 25:12:E101. doi: 10.5888/pcd12.150187.

Authors

Stephen B Soumerai¹, Douglas Starr², Sumit R Majumdar³

Affiliations

¹ Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, 133 Brookline Ave, 6th Floor, Boston, MA 02215. Email: ssoumerai@hms.harvard.edu. Dr Soumerai is also co-chair of the Evaluative Sciences and Statistics Concentration of Harvard University's PhD Program in Health Policy.
² College of Communication, Science Journalism Program, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts.
³ Medicine and Dentistry and Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta.

No abstract available

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

Aged
Benchmarking / standards*
Bias*
Child
Comparative Effectiveness Research / methods*
Comparative Effectiveness Research / standards
Confounding Factors, Epidemiologic
Cost-Benefit Analysis
Electronic Health Records / economics
Epidemiologic Studies
Guidelines as Topic*
Hip Fractures
Humans
Hypnotics and Sedatives
Influenza Vaccines
Organizational Case Studies
Outcome Assessment, Health Care
Pediatric Obesity / prevention & control
Publishing / standards
Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic
Reproducibility of Results
Research Design / standards*
Selection Bias
Social Desirability
Truth Disclosure

Substances

Hypnotics and Sedatives
Influenza Vaccines