Using natural experimental studies to guide public health action: turning the evidence-based medicine paradigm on its head

D Ogilvie, J Adams, A Bauman, EW Gregg… - … Community Health, 2020 - jech.bmj.com
… and unpredictable than a typical randomised controlled trial (… permission to reuse the
content in many different ways. … It is, however, unlikely to be realistic for governments to take no …

How can we adapt complex population health interventions for new contexts? Progressing debates and research priorities

RE Evans, G Moore, A Movsisyan… - … Community Health, 2021 - jech.bmj.com
… permission to reuse the content in many different ways. … progress of complex system thinking
and realist evaluation, which … , Evaluation, Complexity and Implementation in Public Health

Case study research for better evaluations of complex interventions: rationale and challenges

S Paparini, J Green, C Papoutsi, J Murdoch… - BMC medicine, 2020 - Springer
… causal inference from randomised controlled trials alone for … complex systems improve
health services or the public health… in different ways of viewing the world, and involving different

Realist review

R Hunter, T Gorely, M Beattie… - … of Sport and Exercise …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
… Instead of viewing variation in the data as problematic, realist … people and in a different
way for others. In other words, a … that values randomised controlled data, a realist review must …

Understanding 'context'in realist evaluation and synthesis

J Greenhalgh, A Manzano - … of Social Research Methodology, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
… For example, the randomised controlled trial (RCT) epitomises the positivist … sections of
realist studies? Our goal was not to produce a precise quantitative audit of the different ways in …

Evaluating complex interventions in context: systematic, meta-narrative review of case study approaches

S Paparini, C Papoutsi, J Murdoch, J Green… - … research methodology, 2021 - Springer
… case study in a slightly different way and with different goals: 1) … In public health and health
services research, it is now … apply the theories and methods of realist evaluation [68], which …

[HTML][HTML] Framework for the development and evaluation of complex interventions: gap analysis, workshop and consultation-informed update

K Skivington, L Matthews, SA Simpson… - Health technology …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… , we draw attention to new approaches and place greater … ; (2) considering randomised
controlled trials (RCTs) as the … Studies of Complex Public Health Interventions (GuESt study 12 ), …

Using critical realism in primary care research: an overview of methods

EA Sturgiss, AM Clark - Family Practice, 2020 - academic.oup.com
… This is a very different approach to other interview studies (eg grounded theory) as the …
whether randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are a credible method for understanding complex

Rapid realist review of the role of community pharmacy in the public health response to COVID-19

I Maidment, E Young, M MacPhee, A Booth, H Zaman… - BMJ open, 2021 - bmjopen.bmj.com
… permission to reuse the content in many different ways. … A future realist evaluation involving
primary data collection from … for example, a realist evaluation approach should be conducted …

A scoping review of evaluation frameworks and their applicability to real-world physical activity and dietary change programme evaluation

JF Fynn, W Hardeman, K Milton, AP Jones - BMC public health, 2020 - Springer
… Physical activity and dietary change programmes play a central role in addressing public
health priorities. Programme evaluation contributes to the evidence-base about these …