Practice to Evidence: Using Evaluability Assessment to Generate Practice-Based Evidence in Rural South Georgia

Health Education and Behavior

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 454-462

  Honeycutt, Sally ^a   Hermstad, April ^a   Carvalho, Michelle L ^a   Arriola, Kimberly R Jacob ^a   Ballard, Denise ^b   Escoffery, Cam ^a   Kegler, Michelle C ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Georgia Cancer Coalition   (United States)

Author keywords

cancer prevention and screening; community based participatory research; dissemination and implementation; evaluation; outcome evaluation

Indexed keywords

COLORECTAL TUMOR; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROCEDURES; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RURAL POPULATION;

COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE; GEORGIA; HUMANS; PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 85019211187     PISSN: 10901981     EISSN: 15526127     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1090198116673360     Document Type: Article

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