{"product_id":"realist-trials-and-systematic-reviews-rigorous-useful-evidence-to-inform-health-policy-paperback-softback-9781009456609","title":"Realist Trials and Systematic Reviews; Rigorous, Useful Evidence to Inform Health Policy (Paperback \/ softback) 9781009456609","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eRealist Trials and Systematic Reviews\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eRigorous, Useful Evidence to Inform Health Policy\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eExplains how to evaluate health interventions, providing evidence to inform policy decisions and scientific advancement.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eChris Bonell (Author), G. J. Melendez-Torres (Author), Emily Warren (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781009456609, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 15 February 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e134 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.4 x 15.4 x 0.8 cm, 0.22 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis book describes an innovative approach to the evaluation of complex health interventions, assessing what interventions work, how and for whom. Rejecting the stalemate between trials and realist evaluation, it draws on the best of both. Randomised controlled trials and systematic reviews offer the least biased means of assessing intervention effects but tell us little scientifically about how interventions work. Policy-makers and practitioners are also not supported to decide which interventions are likely to achieve most benefits in their local contexts. Realists use other forms of evaluation and evidence synthesis exploring how intervention mechanisms interact with context to generate outcomes. But these approaches lack rigour in assessing causality. This book proposes how realist evaluation methods may be incorporated within randomised controlled trials and systematic reviews. This enables evaluations and evidence synthesis to benefit from the more nuanced questions posed within realist enquiry while maintaining rigour in assessing causality.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 2. Why are trials and systematic reviews necessary but insufficient to inform health policy?\u003cbr\u003e 3. Realist critiques and manifesto for evaluation and reviews\u003cbr\u003e 4. Building realist theory in evaluations\u003cbr\u003e 5. Refining realist theory through process evaluations\u003cbr\u003e 6. Testing realist theory through trials or other evaluation designs\u003cbr\u003e 7. Building and refining realist theory in systematic reviews\u003cbr\u003e 8. Testing realist theory through synthesising outcome evaluations\u003cbr\u003e 9. Using evidence to inform intervention scale-up and transfer\u003cbr\u003e 10. Using evidence to refine middle range theory\u003cbr\u003e Conclusions.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Epidemiology \u0026amp; medical statistics [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Epidemiology \u0026amp; medical statistics\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Epidemiology%20\u0026amp;%20medical%20statistics%20%5BMBNS%5D%22\"\u003eMBNS\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52453437735192,"sku":"9781009456609","price":35.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781009456609i.jpg?v=1785284421","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/realist-trials-and-systematic-reviews-rigorous-useful-evidence-to-inform-health-policy-paperback-softback-9781009456609","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}