Shepperd, S;
Lewin, L;
Straus, S;
Clarke, M;
Eccles, M;
Fitzpatrick, R;
Wong, G;
(2009)
Can we systematically review studies that evaluate complex interventions?
PLoS Med
, 6
(8)
, Article e1000086. 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000086.
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| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Can we systematically review studies that evaluate complex interventions? |
| Location: | UK |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000086 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1000086 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2009 Shepperd et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Funding: S Shepperd was supported by an NIHR Evidence Synthesis Award. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of her viewpoint. The views expressed in the Viewpoint of S Sheppard and colleagues are not necessarily those of The Cochrane Collaboration. GW's NIHR Clinical Lectureship is funded by the United Kingdom's National Institute of Health Research (via University College London). The views expressed by GW in his Viewpoint are his personal views and not necessarily those of his funders or employers. Competing interests: S Shepperd is an editor for the Cochrane Effective Practice and Organisation of Care Review Group. SL is an editor for the Cochrane Consumers and Communication Review Group. MPE is an editor for the Cochrane Effective Practice and Organisation of Care Review Group. AS is PI on a number of evaluations of complex health care interventions funded by the Chief Scientist's Office of the Scottish Government, Health Technology Assessment, National Preventative Research Institute/Medical Research Council and NHS Connecting for Health Evaluation Programme. AS is, in addition, a grant-holder on complex intervention trials funded by Asthma UK, Intel, and the Patient Safety Research Portfolio. AS is also a grant-holder on programme grants for the development and evaluation of complex interventions in supportive and palliative care funded by the National Cancer Research Institute and the MRC Translational Medicine Methodology Trial Hub. GW has no competing interests. |
| Keywords: | systematic, complex interventions |
| UCL classification: | UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/78749 |
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