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The three stages of building and testing mid-level theories in a realist RCT: a theoretical and methodological case-example

BACKGROUND: Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) of social interventions are often criticised as failing to open the ‘black box’ whereby they only address questions about ‘what works’ without explaining the underlying processes of implementation and mechanisms of action, and how these vary by context...

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Autores principales: Jamal, Farah, Fletcher, Adam, Shackleton, Nichola, Elbourne, Diana, Viner, Russell, Bonell, Chris
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4608279/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26470794
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13063-015-0980-y