Reporting guidelines for realist evaluations seek to improve clarity and transparency

An increasing number of realist evaluations are being conducted from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives and with diverse, fit-for-purpose methods. This commentary discusses the recent BMC Medicine publication of RAMESES II reporting guidelines for realist evaluations. Knowledge users such as...

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Autores principales: Welch, Vivian A., Tricco, Andrea C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4957299/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27443561
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12916-016-0658-7
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description An increasing number of realist evaluations are being conducted from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives and with diverse, fit-for-purpose methods. This commentary discusses the recent BMC Medicine publication of RAMESES II reporting guidelines for realist evaluations. Knowledge users such as program implementers and decision-makers will benefit from the increased transparency of reporting and interpretation in light of the totality of evidence encouraged by this guidance. It is hoped that these reporting guidelines will eventually lead to improved knowledge synthesis and contribute to the cumulative science regarding realist evaluation. Please see related article: https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12916-016-0643-1
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spelling pubmed-49572992016-07-23 Reporting guidelines for realist evaluations seek to improve clarity and transparency Welch, Vivian A. Tricco, Andrea C. BMC Med Commentary An increasing number of realist evaluations are being conducted from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives and with diverse, fit-for-purpose methods. This commentary discusses the recent BMC Medicine publication of RAMESES II reporting guidelines for realist evaluations. Knowledge users such as program implementers and decision-makers will benefit from the increased transparency of reporting and interpretation in light of the totality of evidence encouraged by this guidance. It is hoped that these reporting guidelines will eventually lead to improved knowledge synthesis and contribute to the cumulative science regarding realist evaluation. Please see related article: https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12916-016-0643-1 BioMed Central 2016-07-21 /pmc/articles/PMC4957299/ /pubmed/27443561 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12916-016-0658-7 Text en © The Author(s). 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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