This PhD-by-publication thesis describes a journey of developing research and different approaches used for measuring therapeutic change. The focus of this thesis is to investigate what psychological and economic measures can be used to measure clinical outcomes and cost measurement. At every stage consideration has been given to capturing costs and cost effectiveness where possible. The research, considered as a group of papers, focuses on quality of life, outcome measurement, utility measurement, health economics, randomised controlled trials and spans a number of different clinical domains including mental health, nursing, social work and occupational therapy.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:bl.uk/oai:ethos.bl.uk:603451 |
| Date | January 2011 |
| Creators | Flood, Chris |
| Publisher | City University London |
| Source Sets | Ethos UK |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
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