What football teaches us about researching complex health interventions

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 345, Issue 7888, 2012, Pages

  Clark, Alexander M ^a   Briffa, Thomas G ^b   Thirsk, Lorraine ^a   Neubeck, Lis ^c   Redfern, Julie ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMOTION; FOOTBALL; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; MOTIVATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERSONAL VALUE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SELF CARE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HUMANS; SOCCER; SYSTEMS THEORY;

EID: 84872076969     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.e8316     Document Type: Review

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