Causality in complex interventions

Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 77-90

  Rickles, Dean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Causality; Complexity; Intervention research; Observational studies; Randomized controlled trials

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; NOMENCLATURE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CAUSALITY; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 59649098972     PISSN: 13867423     EISSN: 15728633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11019-008-9140-4     Document Type: Article

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