Program Evaluation, Meta-Analysis, and Outcomes Research

The Statistical Research and Applications Branch has provided statistical collaboration and support for numerous program evaluation studies, meta-analyses, and outcomes research studies.

Some examples of SRAB-supported projects in this area are:

• evaluating the population impact of nationwide programs such as the 5 A Day for Better Health campaign to increase fruit and vegetable intake and the ASSIST program to decrease tobacco use;
• using meta-analysis techniques to combine results from multiple studies of interventions to increase the use of breast and cervical cancer screening;
• methods for studying population-based morbidity outcomes for prostate cancer treatment in the Prostate Cancer Outcomes Study (PCOS).

View publications for this area of research.