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  • Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board
  • West of England Academic Health Science NetworkWest
  • National Institute for Health Research

Glossary

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EER

Experimental event rate (see event rate).

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

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

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.

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

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