Why is case management effective? A realist evaluation of case management for frail, community-dwelling older people : lessons learned from Belgium
Abstract: Despite many attempts to evaluate the effectiveness of case management for frail older people, systematic reviews including experimental designs show inconsistent results. Starting from the view that case management is a complex intervention o c- cur ring in multilayered realities, we conducted a realist evaluation of case manag e- ment in Belgium, where this type of intervention is new. Realist approaches are pa r- ticularly well suited to evaluate complex interventions as they seek to investigate it e- rative ly the literature and empirical data to uncover mid -range theories under... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2016 |
Schlagwörter: | Human medicine |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26599708 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://hdl.handle.net/10067/1364310151162165141 |