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Uniform Title Field trials of health interventions in developing countries.
Title Field trials of health interventions : a toolbox / edited by Peter G. Smith, Richard H. Morrow, David A. Ross.

Publication Info. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.

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Edition 3rd edition.
Description 1 online resource (1 PDF file (xxxiii, 444 pages)) : illustrations, portrait
Note "IEA, International Epidemiological Association, Welcome Trust."
Preceded by: Field trials of health interventions in developing countries : a toolbox. 2nd ed. 1996.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction to field trials of health interventions -- Types of intervention and their development -- Reviewing the literature -- Trial design -- Trial size -- Ethical considerations -- Trial governance -- Preparing grant applications -- Community engagement -- Censuses and mapping -- Randomization, blinding, and coding -- Outcome measures and case definition -- Preliminary studies and pilot testing -- Questionnaires -- Social and behavioural research -- Field organization and ensuring data of high quality -- Field laboratory methods -- Budgeting and accounting -- Intervention costing and economic analysis -- Data management -- Methods of analysis -- Phase IV studies -- Reporting and using trial results.
Summary Before new interventions can be used in disease control programmes, it is essential that they are carefully evaluated in "field trials", which may be complex and expensive undertakings. Descriptions of the detailed procedures and methods used in trials that have been conducted in the past have generally not been published. As a consequence, those planning such trials have few guidelines available and little access to previously accumulated knowledge. In this book the practical issues of trial design and conduct are discussed fully and in sufficient detail for the text to be used as a "toolbox" by field investigators. The toolbox has now been extensively tested through use of the first two editions and this third edition is a comprehensive revision, incorporating the many developments that have taken place with respect to trials since 1996 and involving more than 30 contributors. Most of the chapters have been extensively revised and 7 new chapters have been added.
Note Online resource; title from PDF title page (OAPEN, viewed July 8, 2016).
Local Note Oxford University Press Oxford University Press Open Access Books
Language English.
Subject Tropical medicine -- Research -- Methodology.
Tropical & Arctic Medicine.
Medicine.
Health & Biological Sciences.
Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic -- methods. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D016032Q000379
Tropical Medicine -- methods. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014330Q000379
Socioeconomic Factors. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D012959
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Smith, Peter G., editor.
Morrow, R. H., editor.
Ross, David A. (David Anthony), 1955- editor.
International Epidemiological Association, issuing body.
Wellcome Trust (London, England), issuing body.
Other Form: Print version: Field trials of health interventions in developing countries. Field trials of health interventions. 3rd edition. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015 (DLC) 2015936869
ISBN 9780198732860
0198732864
0191797677
9780191797675
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