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Realist trials and the testing of context-mechanism-outcome configurations: a response to Van Belle et al.

BACKGROUND: Van Belle et al. argue that our attempt to pursue realist evaluation via a randomised trial will be fruitless because we misunderstand realist ontology (confusing intervention mechanisms with intervention activities and with statistical mediation analyses) and because RCTs cannot compreh...

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Autores principales: Bonell, Chris, Warren, Emily, Fletcher, Adam, Viner, Russell
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/PMC5045599/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27716303
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13063-016-1613-9