Evaluation and Decision Making for Health Services

Focusing on evaluation as a tool for improved decision making for health services organizations and practitioners, Veney and Kaluzny, both affiliated with the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, offer a framework for decision making that stresses the importance of evaluation in the entire managerial process of program planning, implementation, and control. The book is organized around five major evaluation techniques: monitoring, case studies, survey research, trend analysis, and experimental design. Annotation 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)