Mark B A, Salyer J
Department of Nursing Systems, Community and Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing, Virginia Commonwealth University, Medical College of Virginia, School of Nursing, Richmond 23298-0567, USA.
Outcomes Manag Nurs Pract. 1999 Jan-Mar;3(1):12-8; quiz 18-9.
The authors define treatment effectiveness and outcomes research, then discuss three critical methodological issues that if not appropriately resolved, can invalidate the findings of such studies. The three issues are research design, comparability of treatment groups, and approaches to measurement. These issues must be considered when the quality and contribution of findings from treatment effectiveness and outcomes research are evaluated.
作者们定义了治疗效果和结果研究，然后讨论了三个关键的方法学问题，这些问题如果得不到妥善解决，可能会使此类研究的结果无效。这三个问题是研究设计、治疗组的可比性以及测量方法。在评估治疗效果和结果研究结果的质量和贡献时，必须考虑这些问题。
