Table of contents
- Introduction
- Background
- Objectives and terms of reference
- Research methods
- A critical review of the literature: development of the concept of outcomes in health
- An examination of the concepts of outcome in the health area and its assessment and measurement
- The identification of outcome indicators for different health services
- An outline of appropriate methods of measuring outcomes for different types of health services
- An examination of possible experimental designs for obtaining health services outcome data
- A determination of the feasibility of a project to study the impact of health services on the health status of the population in the western metropolitan region of Sydney
- Recommendations for the use of health status measures in outcome studies
- An assessment of the relevance and applicability of cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analysis to health services evaluation
- An assessment of the scope, relevance and adequacy of existing health data collections as indicators of outcome
- The identification of gaps in existing knowledge of health services outcomes and options for filling these gaps
- Recommendations: an outline of the options for priorities for the identification and collection of basic outcome data
- References