Evaluation & the Health Professions provides health care researchers and evaluators with state-of-the-art methodological, measurement, and statistical tools for conducting, implementing, and evaluation health care programs and interventions. It is designed to provide a forum for keeping health care professionals abreast of the latest technological advances in evaluation research methods through practitioner friendly teaching articles as well as the results of important program evaluations.
Multidisciplinary Perspective For nearly 30 years,
Evaluation & the Health Professions has offered a broad, multidisciplinary approach to the conduct of rigorous original research that focuses on the results of evaluation studies.
It is increasingly recognized as the premiere methodological resource in the health professions as well as a source for innovative outcome evaluations that potentially affect patients’ quality of life. Articles often influence, not only the design of health care research and evaluations, but also the delivery of health care programs themselves.
Translational Research Focus Most recently
Evaluation & the Health Professions has dedicated itself to issues related to translation research, which is defined as (1) the process of applying discoveries generated during research in the laboratory to the development of trials and studies in human studies and (2) enhancing the adoption of these results into health care practices and products that potentially improve health within the community. The journal considers this arena a natural extension of the evaluation process itself and intends to become a leading outlet for articles addressing important issues in this recently adopted major NIH Roadmap Initiative
Current and Comprehensive Recent articles discussing topics of vital importance to researchers and evaluators:
- A multi-method intervention to improve adherence to clinical practice guidelines
- Evaluating the relevance and external validity of translational research
- Acupuncture as an expectancy effect
- Relationship between resident workload and inpatient satisfaction
- Assessment of physicians’ clinical skills
- Determining the statistical significance of HRQOL changes in individual patients
- History of research synthesis
- Development of the Cochrane centralized register of controlled clinical trials
State-of-the-Art Special Issues
Evaluation & the Health Professions averages at least one special issue per year with invited articles by the leading researchers and thinkers in the most pressing research and methodological issues. Recent examples include:
- Translation Issues in Prevention and Treatment Research
(Steve Sussman, Editor – March 2006) - Methodological Issues Related to QOL Measurement
(David Cella, Editor – March 2005) - Power Analysis
(September, 2003) - Recent Advances in Placebo Research
(December, 2002) - The Cochrane Collaboration: Preparing, Maintaining, and Promoting the Accessibility of Systematic Reviews of Health Care Interventions
(Mike Clarke, Editor – March, 2002) - Recent Methodological Advances in the Conduct of Meta-Analysis: Parts 1 and 2 (June - September 2001)
Thomson Reuters 2008 Journal Citation Reports®
2008 Ranking:
11/62 in Health Care Sciences & Services
8/41 in Health Policy & Services
2008 Impact Factor: 2.683
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