Evaluation Methods in Medical Informatics

1. The Challenge of Evaluation in Medical Informatics 2. Evaluation as a Field 3. Studying Clinical Information Resources 4. The Structure of Objectivist Studies 5. The Basics of Measurement 6. Developing Measurement Technique 7. Design, Conduct and Analysis of Demonstration Studies 8. Subjectivist Approaches to Evaluation 9. Design and conduct of Subjectivist Studies 10. Organizational Evaluation of Medical Information Resources 11. Proposing, Reporting, and Refereeing Empirical Studies, and Study Ethics

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