Complex interventions: how “out of control” can a randomised controlled trial be?

By P. Hawe, A. Shiell, Therese Riley. British medical journal, 2004

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Health

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In General Health Professions

1. M. Petticrew
2. H. Roberts
3. Therese Riley
4. P. Hawe
5. A. Shiell
6. C. Emery
7. Alicia O'Cathain
8. J. Gish

In Health

1. M. Petticrew
2. H. Roberts
3. P. Hawe
4. A. Shiell
5. Therese Riley
6. M. Barker
7. Ute Stephan

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• When complexity science meets implementation science: a theoretical and empirical analysis of systems change (2018, background): “[34] argue that, rather than standardizing aspects of an intervention, despite some essential functions being replicable, the form of an intervention should be varied as required by context [39].”
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• The impact of trial stage, developer involvement and international transferability on universal social and emotional learning programme outcomes: a meta-analysis (2016, background): “An alternative ‘middle ground’ is suggested by Hawe, Shiell, and Riley (2004) regarding the need for flexibility in complex interventions.”
• Process evaluation of complex interventions: Medical Research Council guidance (2015, background): “9 10 Unresolved debates regarding adaption of interventions, and what is meant by intervention fidelity, are discussed at length in the full guidance.”
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• Theorising Interventions as Events in Systems (2009, methodology): “…people or relationships among agencies as part of the pre-intervention context-assessment process because this might end up playing a role in predicting why interventions work better in some settings than in others or why some interventions are sustained while others wither (Hawe et al. 2004a).”