Across much of modern health research, children are measured—but not always heard. For much of the past half-century, health ...

This article is part of a Health Affairs Forefront short series, “Enhancing Value By Evaluating Health Care Services.” The series discusses ways to extend the use of tools for clinical and economic ...

Pew Research Center is committed to meeting the highest methodological standards — and to exploring the newest frontiers of research. Learn more about the methods the Center uses to conduct objective, ...

RCTs are considered the best way to determine whether a treatment is effective, and the reason is simple: researchers can hold all other variables constant across groups and study what happens when ...

As a researcher who has used a wide variety of methodologies, I understand the importance of acknowledging that we, as researchers, do not pick the methodology; rather, the research question dictates ...

As the population ages, renewed attention is being given to the institutional buildings where many older adults reside, such ...

In the field of social science, particularly within psychology and counseling, several critical issues have emerged that undermine the scientific rigor of research and practice. One of the most ...