Instruments for Clinical Health-Care Research (Jones and Bartlett Series in Oncology)

A definitive volume for clinical health care research, this book cover's how to measure and assess health and function, health promotion acti vities, outcomes of care, and clinical problems. A significant revisio n to Instruments for Clinical Nursing Research, this "second edition" has kept the same goals: review of available clinical research instrum ents to measure select clinical phenomenon, the description of psychom etric properties of each tool, review of selected studies employing th e tool, identification of instrument strengths and weaknesses, and dis cussion of the relevance of each instrument for nursing. The title has changed to reflect the new U.S. health care agenda for the 90Fs "team " approach to health care.