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Evidence‐based child health and the health care research and development industry

Ruth Gilbert (Senior Lecturer in Clinical Epidemiology, Centre for Evidence‐Based Child Health, Dept of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute of Child Health, London Dr Ruth Gilbert, Centre for Evidence‐Based Child Health, Dept of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London, WC1N 1EH, UK email: r.gilbert@ich.ucl.ac.uk.)
Stuart Logan (Senior Lecturer in Clinical Epidemiology, Centre for Evidence‐Based Child Health, Dept of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute of Child Health, London)

Journal of Clinical Effectiveness

ISSN: 1361-5874

Article publication date: 1 April 1996

69

Abstract

What does evidence‐based health care add to the numerous initiatives in the UK over the last 10 years to improve the quality, effectiveness and efficiency of health care? The health care research and development industry has evolved into a patchwork of activities — clinical audit, clinical effectiveness, health services research, health outcomes, health technology assessment, quality in health care, clinical guidelines, systematic reviews, and medical informatics — with many blurred boundaries. Is evidence‐based health care just an old product in a new package, or does it offer new concepts?

Citation

Gilbert, R. and Logan, S. (1996), "Evidence‐based child health and the health care research and development industry", Journal of Clinical Effectiveness, Vol. 1 No. 4, pp. 146-148. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb020854

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