Is realist evaluation keeping its promise? A review of published empirical studies in the field of health systems research

B Marchal, S Van Belle, J Van Olmen, T Hoerée… - …, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
This overview aims to stimulate conceptual and practical discussions to help unlock the full
potential of realist evaluation in health systems research. Based on a structured literature …

Evaluation in health professions education—Is measuring outcomes enough?

LM Allen, M Hay, C Palermo - Medical Education, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction In an effort to increase the rigour of evaluation in health professions education
(HPE), a range of evaluation approaches are used. These largely focus on outcome …

Data analysis and synthesis within a realist evaluation: toward more transparent methodological approaches

B Gilmore, E McAuliffe, J Power… - International Journal of …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Realist evaluations are increasingly used in the study of complex health interventions. The
methodological procedures applied within realist evaluations however are often inexplicit …

Theory of change: a theory-driven approach to enhance the Medical Research Council's framework for complex interventions

MJ De Silva, E Breuer, L Lee, L Asher, N Chowdhary… - Trials, 2014 - Springer
Abstract Background The Medical Research Councils' framework for complex interventions
has been criticized for not including theory-driven approaches to evaluation. Although the …

Challenges related to the analytical process in realist evaluation and latest developments on the use of NVivo from a realist perspective

DA Bergeron, I Gaboury - International Journal of Social Research …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Realist evaluation (RE) is a research design increasingly used in program evaluation, that
aims to explore and understand the influence of context and underlying mechanisms on …

Effects of an adolescent sexual and reproductive health intervention on health service usage by young people in northern Ghana: a community-randomised trial

GA Aninanya, CY Debpuur, T Awine, JE Williams… - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Background While many Ghanaian adolescents encounter sexual and reproductive health
problems, their usage of services remains low. A social learning intervention, incorporating …

Performance‐based financing in the heath sector in low‐and middle‐income countries: Is there anything whereof it may be said, see, this is new?

E Paul, D Renmans - The International journal of health …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Whereas performance‐based financing (PBF) is now developing fast in the health sector in
low‐and middle‐income countries and is presented an innovative approach—concomitantly …

Unravelling the role of leadership in motivation of health workers in a Moroccan public hospital: a realist evaluation

Z Belrhiti, W Van Damme, A Belalia, B Marchal - BMJ open, 2020 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives This study aimed at opening the black box of the relationship between leadership
and motivation of health workers by focusing on a high-performance hospital in Morocco …

[HTML][HTML] Performance-based financing to strengthen the health system in Benin: challenging the mainstream approach

E Paul, ML Dramé, JP Kashala, AE Ndema… - … Journal of Health …, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: Performance-based financing (PBF) is often proposed as a way to improve
health system performance. In Benin, PBF was launched in 2012 through a World Bank …

Performance-based financing: the same is different

D Renmans, N Holvoet, B Criel… - Health Policy and …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Although it is increasingly acknowledged within the Performance-Based Financing (PBF)
research community that PBF is more than just payments based on outputs verified for …