Scientific Basis of Health Services

Contributors from all over the world discuss subjects such as setting priorities for research and development, evidence based clinical practice, the impact of management on outcomes, clinical guidelines, and implementation of research findings. Foresight of advances in science and technology

Towards a paradigm for technology assessment

Economic evaluation and clinical practice

Impact of management on outcomes

Advances in genetics: implications for health services and social and ethical issues

Critical look at clinical guidelines

Harvard clinical effectiveness training programme

Assessing pack back on the investment in research

Role of the consumer in health research

Research in medical ethics and ethics of research in the European Union

Evidence based management in health care. Research base for professional staffing of health services

Shifting the balance between secondary and primary care

Advances in communication and information technology: implications for health services

Michael Peckham is the editor of Scientific Basis of Health Services, published by Wiley. Richard Smith is an American jazz guitarist. Smith teaches at University of Southern California's Thorton School of Music.