A rational model for assessing and evaluating complex interventions in health care
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Understanding how new clinical techniques, technologies and other complex interventions become normalized in practice is important to researchers, clinicians, health service managers and policy-makers. This paper presents a model of...
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| description | <p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Understanding how new clinical techniques, technologies and other complex interventions become normalized in practice is important to researchers, clinicians, health service managers and policy-makers. This paper presents a model of the normalization of complex interventions.</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>Between 1995 and 2005 multiple qualitative studies were undertaken. These examined: professional-patient relationships; changing patterns of care; the development, evaluation and implementation of telemedicine and related informatics systems; and the production and utilization of evidence for practice. Data from these studies were subjected to (i) formative re-analysis, leading to sets of analytic propositions; and to (ii) a summative analysis that aimed to build a robust conceptual model of the normalization of complex interventions in health care.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>A normalization process model that enables analysis of the conditions necessary to support the introduction of complex interventions is presented. The model is defined by four constructs: interactional workability; relational integration; skill set workability and contextual integration. This model can be used to understand the normalization potential of new techniques and technologies in healthcare settings</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>The normalization process model has face validity in (i) assessing the potential for complex interventions to become routinely embedded in everyday clinical work, and (ii) evaluating the factors that promote or inhibit their success and failure in practice.</p> |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b648ae44bcb74d3a9523fd5a063473142022-12-22T02:47:05ZengBMCBMC Health Services Research1472-69632006-07-01618610.1186/1472-6963-6-86A rational model for assessing and evaluating complex interventions in health careMay Carl<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Understanding how new clinical techniques, technologies and other complex interventions become normalized in practice is important to researchers, clinicians, health service managers and policy-makers. This paper presents a model of the normalization of complex interventions.</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>Between 1995 and 2005 multiple qualitative studies were undertaken. These examined: professional-patient relationships; changing patterns of care; the development, evaluation and implementation of telemedicine and related informatics systems; and the production and utilization of evidence for practice. Data from these studies were subjected to (i) formative re-analysis, leading to sets of analytic propositions; and to (ii) a summative analysis that aimed to build a robust conceptual model of the normalization of complex interventions in health care.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>A normalization process model that enables analysis of the conditions necessary to support the introduction of complex interventions is presented. The model is defined by four constructs: interactional workability; relational integration; skill set workability and contextual integration. This model can be used to understand the normalization potential of new techniques and technologies in healthcare settings</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>The normalization process model has face validity in (i) assessing the potential for complex interventions to become routinely embedded in everyday clinical work, and (ii) evaluating the factors that promote or inhibit their success and failure in practice.</p>http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6963/6/86 |
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| title | A rational model for assessing and evaluating complex interventions in health care |
| title_full | A rational model for assessing and evaluating complex interventions in health care |
| title_fullStr | A rational model for assessing and evaluating complex interventions in health care |
| title_full_unstemmed | A rational model for assessing and evaluating complex interventions in health care |
| title_short | A rational model for assessing and evaluating complex interventions in health care |
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