Evaluating complex interventions: Health improvement programmes: Really too complex to evaluate?

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 340, Issue 7746, 2010, Pages 551-

  Bond, Lyndal ^a   Craig, Peter ^b   Egan, Matthew ^a   Skivington, Kathryn ^a   Thomson, Hilary ^a  

^a MRC SOCIAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC Population Health Sciences Research Network   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH PROGRAM; INTERVENTION STUDY; LETTER; MEDICAL ERROR; MEDICAL INFORMATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; NOTE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 77949880673     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.c1332     Document Type: Letter

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