A scoping review about conference objectives and evaluative practices: how do we get more out of them?

Health Research Policy and Systems

Volumn 10, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Neves, Justin ^a,b   Lavis, John N ^a,b,c,d   Ranson, M Kent ^e  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Conference objectives; Conferences and symposia; Evaluation methods; Indicators of success; Learning and behaviour theories; Program evaluations

Indexed keywords

BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE PRACTICE; REVIEW; THEORETICAL MODEL; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

CONGRESSES AS TOPIC; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; HUMANS;

EID: 84864483656     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14784505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1478-4505-10-26     Document Type: Review

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