Challeging the framework for evidence in palliative care research

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Title: Challeging the framework for evidence in palliative care research
Author(s): Aoun, Samar M.; Kristjanson, Linda J.
Abstract: This paper examines the debate about best evidence within the public health literature and proposes that similar arguments and concerns exist with respect to use of current evidence-based approaches to implementing research and evaluating the literature in palliative care. Whilst randomized controlled trials (RCTs) remain the gold standard and are appropriate in many instances of palliative care research, there is a need for an alternate research design framework that incorporates contextual and compositional effects pertinent to palliative care research. A framework, entitled Equity-Based Evidence, is discussed as an approach to evidence-based knowledge development in palliative care.
Publication type: Journal article
Source: Palliative Medicine, Vol. 19, no. 6 (Sep 2005), pp. 461-465
Publication year: 2005
FOR Code(s): 1117 Public Health and Health Services
Keyword(s): Equity-base evidence framework; Levels of evidence; Palliative care research; Randomised controlled trials
Publisher: Sage
ISSN: 0269-2163
Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1191/0269216305pm1057oa
Peer reviewed