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Review
. 2007 Mar 3;334(7591):455-9.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.39108.379965.BE.

Designing and evaluating complex interventions to improve health care

Neil C Campbell  1 , Elizabeth Murray, Janet Darbyshire, Jon Emery, Andrew Farmer, Frances Griffiths, Bruce Guthrie, Helen Lester, Phil Wilson, Ann Louise Kinmonth
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Designing and evaluating complex interventions to improve health care

Neil C Campbell et al. BMJ. .

Abstract

Determining the effectiveness of complex interventions can be difficult and time consuming. Neil C Campbell and colleagues explain the importance of ground work in getting usable results

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: None declared.

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Relation between context, problem definition, intervention, and evaluation for complex interventions
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