Book description
In the evaluation of healthcare, rigorous methods of quantitative
assessment are necessary to establish interventions that are beneficial,
are superior to all alternatives and are cost-effective. Usually one
study will not provide answers to these questions and it will be
necessary to synthesize evidence from multiple sources. This book aims
to outline a coherent approach to such evidence synthesis, for the
purpose of decision making. Each chapter contains worked examples,
exercises and solutions drawn from a variety of medical disciplines
Evidence Syntesis for Decision Making intends to provide a
practical guide to the appropriate methods for synthesizing evidence
for use in analytical decision models. More specifically, it proposes
a comprehensive evidence synthesis framework, which models all the
available data appropriately and efficiently in a format that can be
incorporated directly into a decision model.
