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T1 - Statistical issues in the assessment of health outcomes in children : methodological review.
AU - Lancaster, Gillian
N1 - This is a pre-print of an article published in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society), 172 (4), 2009. (c) Wiley.
PY - 2009/10
Y1 - 2009/10
N2 - The lack of outcome measures that are validated for use on children limits the effectiveness and generalizability of paediatric health care interventions. Statistical epidemiology is a broad concept encompassing a wide range of useful techniques for use in child health outcome assessment and development. However, the range of techniques that are available is often confusing and prohibits their adoption. In the paper an overview of methodology is provided within the paediatric context. It is demonstrated that in many cases assessment can be performed relatively straightforwardly by using standard statistical techniques, although sometimes more sophisticated techniques are required. Examples of both physiological and questionnaire-based outcomes are given. The usefulness of these techniques is highlighted for achieving specific objectives and ultimately for achieving methodological rigour in clinical outcome studies that are performed in the paediatric population.
AB - The lack of outcome measures that are validated for use on children limits the effectiveness and generalizability of paediatric health care interventions. Statistical epidemiology is a broad concept encompassing a wide range of useful techniques for use in child health outcome assessment and development. However, the range of techniques that are available is often confusing and prohibits their adoption. In the paper an overview of methodology is provided within the paediatric context. It is demonstrated that in many cases assessment can be performed relatively straightforwardly by using standard statistical techniques, although sometimes more sophisticated techniques are required. Examples of both physiological and questionnaire-based outcomes are given. The usefulness of these techniques is highlighted for achieving specific objectives and ultimately for achieving methodological rigour in clinical outcome studies that are performed in the paediatric population.
KW - Child health
KW - PROMs
KW - Child mental health
KW - Health outcomes
KW - Quality of life
KW - Statistical methodology
KW - Study design
U2 - 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2009.00590.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2009.00590.x
M3 - Journal article
VL - 172
SP - 707
EP - 727
JO - Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A Statistics in Society
JF - Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A Statistics in Society
SN - 0964-1998
IS - 4
ER -