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“Logic models describe the relationship between an intervention’s inputs, activities, outputs, outcomes, and impacts” https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-magenta-book. “A logic model is a systematic and visual way to present and share your understanding of the relationships among the resources you have to operate your... Read more
“Quantitative research generates numerical data or data that can be converted into numbers, for example clinical trials or the National Census, which counts people and households”. http://www.medicine.ox.ac.uk/bandolier/booth/glossary/qualres.html
“Triangulation, first used in 1959, is defined as a combination of multi methods in a study of the same object or event to depict more accurately the phenomenon being investigated”. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8514935
“Combining outcome data with an understanding of the process that led to those outcomes” W.K. Kellogg Foundation (2010) Evaluation Handbook http://wkkf.org/resource-directory/resource/2010/w-k-kellogg-foundation-evaluation-handbook
An evaluation “conducted at the end of an intervention (or a phase of that intervention) to determine the extent to which anticipated outcomes were produced” WHO (2013) Evaluation Practice Handbook apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/96311/1/9789241548687_eng.pdf
“measures of organizational characteristics (such as staffing ratios, number of hospital beds)” Or “Denotes attributes of the setting in which care occurs” http://www.health.state.mn.us/healthreform/baskets/measurement090609_definition.pdf Donabedian (1997) http://post.queensu.ca/~hh11/assets/applets/The_Quality_of_Care__How_Can_it_Be_Assessed_-_Donabedian.pdf
“A quasi-experiment is an observational study in which the subjects to be observed are not randomly assigned to different groups in order to measure outcomes, as in a randomized experiment, but grouped according to a characteristic that they already possess”... Read more
“Qualitative research is used to explore and understand people’s beliefs, experiences, attitudes, behaviour and interactions. It generates non- numerical data, e.g. a patient’s description of their pain rather than a measure of pain. In health care, qualitative techniques have been... Read more
“interactions between healthcare practitioner and patient; a series of actions, changes, or functions bringing about a result (such as mammography screening rate)” “denotes what is actually being done in giving and receiving care” UK Medical Research Council (MRC) guidance (2014)... Read more
“a study which aims to understand the functioning of an intervention, by examining implementation, mechanisms of impact, and contextual factors” UK Medical Research Council (MRC) guidance (2014) Process Evaluation of Complex Interventions mrc.ac.uk/documents/pdf/mrc-phsrn-process-evaluation-summary-guidance