A quasi-experimental research design is used to evaluate Carolina Healthstyle, a health promotion project for South Carolina state employees. A 10% stratified random sample of employees was surveyed ...

When randomised controlled trials are not possible to conduct due to feasibility, ethical, or policy reasons, quasi-experimental study designs can be used to evaluate the causal impact of health ...

Janet Currie ( [email protected]) is the Henry Putnam Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University, in New Jersey. Samantha Heep Ray is an analyst at Cornerstone Research, in San ...

In many experiments and observational studies, random assignment of subjects to treatment and control groups is not possible. These "quasi-experiments" can potentially lead to what is called selection ...

Ethicists contend that researchers are obliged to report genetic research findings to individual study participants when they are clinically significant, that is, when they are clinically useful or ...

This course is compulsory on the Executive MSc in Evaluation of Health Care Interventions and Outcomes, in collaboration with NICE. This course is not available as an outside option. When randomised ...