Reviews and Notes: Policy: Doing More Good Than Harm: The Evaluation of Health Care Interventions

Doing More Good than Harm: The Evaluation of Health Care Interventions

Kenneth S. Warren and Frederick Mosteller; eds. 340 pages. New York: NY Acad of Sciences; 1993. $90.00 hardcover; $45.00 softcover.

Thirty-six papers (with panel and general discussions) by a large group of international authorities discuss types of clinical evidence; quality of evidence and judgments of quality; types and designs of clinical trials; synoptic information (reviews, overviews, meta-analyses); journals and the press in disseminating information; evidence in medical education and practice; and financing evidence-producing research. Valuable as a detailed survey of current clinical-trials work, its justification, the reporting of it, and its applications; notably useful for the bibliographies of individual papers. No index.