Researching Complex Interventions in Health: The State of the Art : Exeter, UK. 14-15 October 2015

BMC Health Serv Res. 2016 Apr 4;16 Suppl 1(Suppl 1):101. doi: 10.1186/s12913-016-1274-0.

Abstract

KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS

K1 Researching complex interventions: the need for robust approaches

Peter Craig

K2 Complex intervention studies: an important step in developing knowledge for practice

Ingalill Rahm-Hallberg

K3 Public and patient involvement in research: what, why and how?

Nicky Britten

K4 Mixed methods in health service research – where do we go from here?

Gunilla Borglin

SPEAKER PRESENTATIONS

S1 Exploring complexity in systematic reviews of complex interventions

Gabriele Meyer, Sascha Köpke, Jane Noyes, Jackie Chandler

S2 Can complex health interventions be optimised before moving to a definitive RCT? Strategies and methods currently in use

Sara Levati

S3 A systematic approach to develop theory based implementation interventions

Anne Sales

S4 Pilot studies and feasibility studies for complex interventions: an introduction

Lehana Thabane, Lora Giangregorio

S5 What can be done to pilot complex interventions?

Nancy Feeley, Sylvie Cossette

S6 Using feasibility and pilot trials to test alternative methodologies and methodological procedures prior to full scale trials

Rod Taylor

S7 A mixed methods feasibility study in practice

Jacqueline Hill, David A Richards, Willem Kuyken

S8 Non-standard experimental designs and preference designs

Louise von Essen

S9 Evaluation gone wild: using natural experimental approaches to evaluate complex interventions

Andrew Williams

S10 The stepped wedge cluster randomised trial: an opportunity to increase the quality of evaluations of service delivery and public policy interventions

Karla Hemming, Richard Lilford, Alan Girling, Monica Taljaard

S11 Adaptive designs in confirmatory clinical trials: opportunities in investigating complex interventions

Munyaradzi Dimairo

S12 Processes, contexts and outcomes in complex interventions, and the implications for evaluation

Mark Petticrew

S13 Processes, contexts and outcomes in complex interventions, and the implications for evaluation

Janis Baird, Graham Moore

S14 Qualitative evaluation alongside RCTs: what to consider to get relevant and valuable results

Willem Odendaal, Salla Atkins, Elizabeth Lutge, Natalie Leon, Simon Lewin

S15 Using economic evaluations to understand the value of complex interventions: when maximising health status is not sufficient

Katherine Payne

S16 How to arrive at an implementation plan

Theo van Achterberg

S17 Modelling process and outcomes in complex interventions

Walter Sermeus

S18 Systems modelling for improving health care

Martin Pitt, Thomas Monks