Statistical issues in the assessment of health outcomes in children: A methodological review

摘要

Child health outcome assessment can be defined as the procedures that are used to describe and quantify the effectiveness of all Paediatric health care interventions including medicines. This paper describes the main issues to consider in health outcome assessment during the process of development, illustrate various measurement methods by using examples taken from different Paediatric contexts and highlight the appropriate statistical tools to use in each case. The emphasis is also on providing an overview of the process to give researchers a context within which to work and extend this research to more aspects in future. (117 refs.)