Zorgevaluatie en richtlijnenonderzoek

Health care evaluation and guideline research

Health care evaluation is essential in improving patient care. This as a continuous process, in which randomized studies can be used to answer unambiguous knowledge gaps and observational quantitative studies for structural evaluation of guideline use in daily practice. Several conditions need to be fulfilled before these observational studies can be part of routine clinical practice. An important issue is awareness among healthcare providers and Boards of Directors to support and facilitate these relevant observational studies.