| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half-title page -- Reviews -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Boxes -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Why Are Trials and Systematic Reviews Necessary but Currently Insufficient to Inform Health Policy? -- Chapter 3 Realist Critiques and Manifesto for Evaluation and Reviews -- Chapter 4 Building Realist Theory in Evaluations -- Chapter 5 Refining Realist Theory through Process Evaluations -- Chapter 6 Testing Realist Theory through Trials or Other Evaluation Designs |
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Chapter 7 Building and Refining Realist Theory in Systematic Reviews -- Chapter 8 Testing Realist Theory through Synthesising Outcome Evaluations -- Chapter 9 Using Evidence to Inform Intervention Scale-Up and Transfer -- Chapter 10 Using Evidence to Refine Middle Range Theory -- Conclusion -- References -- Index |
| Summary |
Describing an innovative approach to the evaluation of complex health interventions, this book allows reader to assess what interventions work, how and for whom. Proposing how realist evaluation methods may be incorporated within trials and systematic reviews, this approach provides useful evidence to inform policy and scientific advancement |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 28, 2024) |
| Subject |
Medical policy.
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Evidence-based medicine.
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Health Policy
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Therapies, Investigational -- methods
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Clinical Trials as Topic
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Systematic Reviews as Topic
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Evidence-Based Medicine
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Melendez-Torres, G. J. (Gerardo Javier), 1989- author.
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Warren, Emily (Public health researcher), author.
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| ISBN |
9781009456616 |
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100945661X |
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