Dear Chris
In the Engager II project (http://clahrc-peninsula.nihr.ac.uk/project/55-engager.php ) we've used realist review (and additional data sources) to specify how a complex mental health intervention (for offenders) is proposed to work. It includes both organisational and individual-level issues, such as the relationship between practitioners and offenders, and offenders’ perceptions, understanding and skills (and how these interact with available resources).
The clinical interventions you mention (and the environments in which they’re implemented) may differ in important ways from the mental health intervention and environment that is our concern in the Engager II project – but the methods for articulating the complexity of how interventions are proposed to work may well be judiciously transferable. Happy to discuss further or correspond on the RAMESES list.
Best wishes
Mark
Mark Pearson PhD
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Evidence Synthesis & Modelling for Health Improvement (ESMI)
University of Exeter Medical School
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From: Realist and Meta-narrative Evidence Synthesis: Evolving Standards [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Rebecca Randell
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Subject: Re: New Literature Searching Resource for Realist Syntheses http://realistsearch.pbworks.com/
Hi Chris
We're using realist evaluation to understand how robotic surgery achieves both intended and unintended outcomes and I'd be happy to chat with you about our experience if you want to get in touch.
Best wishes
Rebecca
Dr Rebecca Randell
Senior Translational Research Fellow
School of Healthcare
Baines Wing (room LG.05)
University of Leeds
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On 6 Nov 2014, at 12:29, "McCourt, Christine" <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
Thanks Andrew – very impressed.
I have a general question for the list. Most realist evaluation and review to date has focused on ‘programmes’ such as change in health service organisations or to implement changes in practices, etc. I’m interested to know how many people have used it to address more clinical questions to do with the ways in which specific interventions work. Clinical interventions are often thought to be less complex, but in maternity care at least, most a complex and become more so the more you look into them.
We are planning a realist review of a clinical intervention because we feel conventional systematic review methods don’t allow sufficiently for complexity and will be interested to hear about others’ experiences of doing this, including whether you have adapted your approaches at all.
Chris
Christine McCourt
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From: Andrew Booth <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
Organization: School of Health & Related Research (ScHARR)
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Date: Thursday, 6 November 2014 11:53
To: "[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>" <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
Subject: New Literature Searching Resource for Realist Syntheses http://realistsearch.pbworks.com/
Following numerous requests and Gill's kind but unwarranted approbation I have quickly assembled a resource to support Literature Searching for Realist Reviews:
http://realistsearch.pbworks.com/
It includes my own CARES presentation and all the other essential searching methods items in my personal "Desert Island" Collection. I am hoping that Chris Cooper will also make his CARES presentation available to us.
So if you have emailed me for search guidance over the last few days (thanks Gill :-) )please look at this resource first. Of course I will then be happy to answer specific questions arising from the resource materials (and of course any resource I subsequently find useful in answering your follow up questions).
As in true realist fashion I have privileged relevance and timeliness over rigour I will be very interested in learning of anything you find useful that is not yet included on my resource :-)
I hope you will find it useful!
Best wishes
Andrew
The House for Realist “Fun”
(With Apologies to the House of The Rising Sun) There is a house in Liv-er-pool It’s known to Ray Paw-son And it's been the ruin of so much E-B-M And don’t I know I'm one!
My mother was “relative”
(Don’t know what that term means!)
My father was positivist
Written in his genes
Now the only thing a realist needs
Is a mid-range theory
And the only time he's satisfied
He comes across quite dreary
Oh, tutors, tell your students
Not to do what I have done
The only Outcome there is misery
Whatever the Mech-a-nis-m
Well, I got one eye on the Programme
The source of all my pains
I'm goin' back to Liv-er-pool
To break my C-MO chains
Well, there is a house in Liv-er-pool
It’s known to Ray Paw-son
And it's been the ruin of so much E-B-M
And now I know I'm done!
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Reader in Evidence Based Information Practice
Health Economics and Decision Science
School of Health & Related Research (ScHARR)
University of Sheffield
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School of Health & Related Research (ScHARR) University of Sheffield Regent Court
30 Regent Street
Sheffield
S1 4DA
Tel: +44 (0) 114 222 0705
Fax:+44 (0) 114 272 4095
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