Health Serv Deliv Res 2018;6(5)
- Evaluating service innovations in health care and public health requires flexibility, collaboration and pragmatism; this collection identifies robust, innovative and mixed methods to inform such evaluations.
- "Broadly speaking, there are two approaches to producing summative assessments of the costs and benefits of entire programmes. The first involves direct estimation of the summative impacts through exploitation of some experiment or other source of variation in implementation. The second involves modelling the causal chain through component processes to derive an aggregate measure where direct estimation is not feasible." see Recent developments
