Economic Evaluation

“Compare the benefits of the intervention [intervention/service] with the costs”

Magenta Book (2011) – http://gov.uk/government/publications/the-magenta-book

EER

Experimental event rate (see event rate).

Effectiveness

“The extent to which an intervention produces an overall benefit under usual or everyday conditions”.

https://www.nice.org.uk/article/pmg20/chapter/glossary

“The extent to which a treatment achieves its intended purpose”. “The ability to produce a specific result or to exert a specific measurable influence”.
http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/effectiveness

Effectiveness

A measure of the benefit resulting from an intervention for a given health problem under usual conditions of clinical care, for a particular group.

Efficacy

“the ability of an intervention to produce the desired beneficial effect in expert hands and under ideal circumstances”.

http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/efficacy

Efficacy

A measure of the benefit resulting from an intervention for a given health problem under the ideal conditions of an investigation.

Efficiency

“A measure of how economically resources/inputs (funds, expertise, time, etc) are converted to results”

“which measures how well resources are used in order to achieve a desired outcome”

WHO (2013) Evaluation Practice Handbook
http://www.medicine.ox.ac.uk/bandolier/painres/download/whatis/what_is_health_econ.pdf

EMBASE

A biomedical and pharmacological database with good Western European source coverage, and therefore complementary to Medline. The emphasis is on the pharmacological effects of drugs and chemicals. Covers the years 1980 to present and is updated daily.

EMIS reference aka Mentor

Accessible via EMIS.  This is an on-line system for searching and displaying the full contents of EMIS medical reference publications.

Evaluability

“The extent to which an activity or a programme can be evaluated in a reliable and credible fashion”

WHO (2013) Evaluation Practice Handbook
apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/96311/1/9789241548687_eng.pdf

Evaluability Assessment

“Early review of a proposed activity in order to ascertain whether its objectives are adequately defined and its results verifiable”

WHO (2013) Evaluation Practice Handbook
apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/96311/1/9789241548687_eng.pdf

Evaluation

“measure/judge current service without reference to a standard, “What standard does this service achieve?”

http://www.hra.nhs.uk/documents/2013/09/defining-research.pdf

“A study in which research procedures are used in a systematic way to judge the quality or value of a service or intervention, providing evidence that can be used to improve it”
West of England Evaluation Strategy Group, 2013