Assessing interventions, volume 4 Assessing interventions, volume 4 Tudiver F et al SAGE pubilcation 246pp £14.50 0-8039-477-2 [Formula: see text].

Of the 26 contributors to Assessing Interventions: Traditional and Innovative Methods, Volume 4, there is only one nursing contributor; the majority of the remainder being medical doctors from the USA. Of the 246 pages, just nine are used by the nurse contributor, who says little that is new about qualitative methods in researching nursing care. The book needs to be read with the primary health-care team in mind.. It is divided into four sections. Section One considers basic issues in assessing interventions in primary care; the second section looks at the application of alternative methodologies - quantitative and qualitative. The third section explores specific topics and gives practical examples of how research was conducted by the authors and others within their disciplines. Section Four presents a panel discussion and considers future developments in primary care research. It will be of interest to anyone who may be presently involved in the evaluation of patient-centred research. The analysis and evaluation throughout the chapters, particularly in the third section, are worth having as an addendum to other research texts. Assessing Interventions will be of some value to lecturers in nursing, though perhaps not as a main text, but its price makes it accessible.