There is an increasing need for reliable information on the relative value of medical interventions to assist decision making on both the individual and public health levels; addressing this need is ...

The goal of comparative effectiveness research is to inform clinical decisions between alternate treatment strategies using data that reflect real patient populations and real-world clinical scenarios ...

Clinical trials that are embedded into usual care have the potential to yield outcomes of great relevance to the institutions where they are performed and at the same time to yield information that ...

Grounded theory methodology is a robust qualitative research approach that systematically generates theory from data. It employs an inductive process whereby researchers engage in iterative data ...

Introduction to the problem of comparative methodology (Maurice ADAMS, Tilburg University) ‘Path dependency’ in the methodology of comparative disciplines (David NELKEN (Kings’s College)) Methodology ...

John Zalcberg undertook this work while on sabbatical at the National Institute for Clinical Studies but other than in kind support, he did not receive funds from that organisation. The evidence ...

This PhD programme offers the chance to undertake a substantial piece of work that is worthy of publication and which makes an original contribution to the field of methodology or which applies ...