Search Results - subject:"Complex interventions"

Changing policy and practice: Making sense of national guidelines for osteoarthritis

Ong, Bie Nio; Morden, Andrew; Brooks, Lauren; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 106 (2014) C, pp. 101-109

Understanding uptake of complex interventions is an increasingly prominent area of research. The interplay of macro …) factors upon uptake of complex interventions has rarely been explored. This study focuses on how English General Practitioners …

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Agency and implementation: Understanding the embedding of healthcare innovations in practice

May, Carl - In: Social Science & Medicine 78 (2013) C, pp. 26-33

An innovation is almost never a thing-in-itself. To be sure, there is often what looks like a thing – a newly invented or modified way of thinking or acting, or an artifact, or a system – that is identified in everyday talk as something new. In healthcare, as in almost every other area of...

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What are the components of complex interventions in healthcare? Theorizing approaches to parts, powers and the whole intervention

Clark, Alexander M. - In: Social Science & Medicine 93 (2013) C, pp. 185-193

The components of complex interventions are frequently discussed, invoked and examined in theory and research but … approaches that can be taken to the components of complex interventions. Most basically, complex interventions are defined as … interventions past approaches variously: downplay complexity, focus on the complicatedness of complex interventions, or emphasize …

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Rapid Evaluation Approaches for Complex Initiatives.

Hargreaves, Margaret B. - Mathematica Policy Research - 2013

This white paper presents a comparative framework of rapid evaluation methods for projects at three levels of complexity: quality improvement methods for simple process improvement projects, rapid cycle evaluations for complicated organizational change programs, and systems-based rapid feedback...

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Realist randomised controlled trials: A new approach to evaluating complex public health interventions

Bonell, Chris; Fletcher, Adam; Morton, Matthew; Lorenc, Theo - In: Social Science & Medicine 75 (2012) 12, pp. 2299-2306

context to produce outcomes. This last suggestion resonates with recent suggestions that, in delivering truly ‘complex …’ interventions, fidelity is important not so much in terms of precise activities but, rather, key intervention ‘processes’ and …

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Care pathways lead to better teamwork: Results of a systematic review

Deneckere, Svin; Euwema, Martin; Van Herck, Pieter; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 75 (2012) 2, pp. 264-268

Care pathways are often said to promote interprofessional teamwork. As no systematic review on pathway effectiveness has ever focused on how care pathways promote teamwork, the objective of this review was to study this relationship. We performed an extensive search of electronic databases and...

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Using documents to investigate links between implementation and sustainability in a complex community intervention: The PRISM study

Willis, Karen; Small, Rhonda; Brown, Stephanie - In: Social Science & Medicine 75 (2012) 7, pp. 1222-1229

The increasing imperative to find what works in health services has meant a rise in research trialing interventions deemed ‘complex’. While the strength of these interventions comes from taking a ‘whole of problem’ approach using multiple and inter-linking strategies, ways of examining...

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Medical Studentsâ€™ and Tutorsâ€™ Experiences of Directed and Self-Directed Learning Programs in Evidence-Based Medicine

Bradley, Peter; Oterholt, Christina; Nordheim, Lena; … - In: Evaluation Review 29 (2005) 2, pp. 149-177

evaluating other socially complex interventions. …

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