Designing and evaluating complex interventions to improve health care

Neil C Campbell; Elizabeth Murray; Janet Darbyshire; Jon Emery; Andrew Farmer; Frances Griffiths; Bruce Guthrie; Helen Lester; Phil Wilson; Ann Louise Kinmonth

doi:10.1136/bmj.39108.379965.BE

Designing and evaluating complex interventions to improve health care

BMJ. 2007 Mar 3;334(7591):455-9. doi: 10.1136/bmj.39108.379965.BE.

Authors

Neil C Campbell¹, Elizabeth Murray, Janet Darbyshire, Jon Emery, Andrew Farmer, Frances Griffiths, Bruce Guthrie, Helen Lester, Phil Wilson, Ann Louise Kinmonth

Affiliation

¹ Department of General Practice and Primary Care, University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill Health Centre, Aberdeen AB25 2AY. n.campbell@abdn.ac.uk

Abstract

Determining the effectiveness of complex interventions can be difficult and time consuming. Neil C Campbell and colleagues explain the importance of ground work in getting usable results

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Data Collection / methods
Evidence-Based Medicine*
Health Planning / methods*
Humans
Program Evaluation
Quality of Health Care / standards*
Research Design

Abstract

Publication types

MeSH terms

Grants and funding