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| Theory and Issues | |
| Theories of Change and Realistic Evaluation | |
| Peas in a Pod or Apples and Oranges? | |
| Ethical Issues for Collaborative Research in Developing Countries | |
| a Brief History of Research Synthesis | |
| Ethics and Observational Studies in Medical Research | |
| Various Rules in a Common Framework | |
| Cultural Translation of Interventions | |
| Diabetes Care in American Samoa | |
| The Role of Behavioral Science Theory in Development and Implementation of Public Health Interventions | |
| Practical Clinical Trials for Translating Research to Practice | |
| Design and Measurement Recommendations | |
| Choosing Evaluation Models | |
| a Discussion of Evaluation Design | |
| Informed Consent in Ghana | |
| What Do Participants Really Understand? | |
| Effectiveness of Antidepressants | |
| An Evidence Myth Constructed from a Thousand Randomized Trials? | |
| How Can Research Organizations More Effectively Transfer Research Knowledge to Decision Makers? | |
| Descriptive Meta-Evaluation | |
| Case Study of an Interdisciplinary Curriculum | |
| Out of Context? Translating Evidence from the North Karelia Project over Place and Time | |
| The Use of Rapid-Feedback Evaluation Methods to Improve the Retention Rates of an HIV/AIDS Health-Care Intervention | |
| Assessing the Evaluability of Complex Public Health Interventions | |
| Five Questions for Researchers, Funders and Policy Makers | |
| Type II Translation | |
| Transporting Prevention from Research to Real-World Settings | |
| Is Sustainability Possible? a Review and Commentary on Empirical Studies of Program Sustainability | |
| Ten Steps to Making Evaluation Matter | |
| Translation in the Health Professions | |
| Converting Science into Action | |
| Using Concept Mapping to Develop a Logic Model and Articulate a Program Theory | |
| a Case Example | |
| Methods and Design | |
| What Can We Learn from Quality Improvement Research? a Critical Review of Research Methods | |
| The Missing Treatment Design Element | |
| Continuity of Treatment When Multiple Post-Observations Are Used in Time-Series and Repeated Measures Study Designs | |
| Are Positive Alternative Medical Therapy Trials Credible? Evidence from Four High-Impact Medical Journals | |
| The Conflict between Random Assignment and Treatment Preference | |
| Implications for Internal Validity | |
| Innovative Retention Methods in Longitudinal Research | |
| a Case Study of the Developmental Trends Study | |
| a Hierarchy of Evidence for Assessing Qualitative Health Research | |
| Why Do Multi-Organizational Quality Initiatives Usually Fail? | |
| Active Control Clinical Trials to Establish Equivalence or Non-Inferiority | |
| Methodological and Statistical Concepts Linked to Quality | |
| Evaluating the Relevance, Generalization and Applicability of Research | |
| Issues in External Validation and Translation Methodology | |
| The Logic of Summative Confidence | |
| Using Clinical Databases to Evaluate Health-Care Interventions | |
| Designing a Prospective Study When Randomization Is Not Feasible | |
| Randomized Field Trials and Internal Validity | |
| Not So Fast My Friend | |
| Using Large-Scale Databases in Evaluation | |
| Advances, Opportunities and Challenges | |
| Cut-Off Designs for Community-Based Intervention Studies | |
| Evaluating Methods for Estimating Program Effects | |
| Treatment Fidelity in Behavior Change Research | |
| a Case Example | |
| Commitment to Practice Change | |
| An Evaluator's Perspective | |
| Choose Your Method | |
| a Comparison of Phenomenology, Discourse Analysis and Grounded Theory | |
| Evaluability Assessment from 1986 to 2006 | |
| Comparative Effectiveness Research | |
| Policy Context, Methods Development and Research Infrastructure | |
| Methodologies for Improving Response Rates in Surveys of Physicians | |
| a Systematic Review | |
| Measurement and Statistics | |
| Item Response Theory and Its Applications to Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement | |
| Design of Experiments with Multiple Independent Variables | |
| a Resource Management Perspective on Complete and Reduced Factorial Designs | |
| Defining Clinically Meaningful Change in Health-Related Quality of Life | |
| a Review of Software for Sample Size Determination | |
| How to Measure Comorbidity | |
| a Critical Review of Available Methods | |
| Health-Care Expenditure Prediction with a Single-Item, Self-Rated Health Measure | |
| Common Methodological Flaws in Economic Evaluations | |
| Medical Record Review Conduction Model for Improving Inter-Rater Reliability of Abstracting Medical-Related Information | |
| a Comprehensive Method for the Translation and Cross-Cultural Validation of Health Status Questionnaires | |
| Estimating the Costs of Preventive Interventions | |
| Comparison of Focus Groups on Cancer and Employment Conducted Face to Face or by Telephone | |
| An Introduction to Generalized Estimating Equations and an Application to Assess Selectivity Effects in a Longitudinal Study on Very Old Individuals | |
| An Overview of Relations among Causal Modeling Methods | |
| a Review of Instrumental Variables Estimation of Treatment Effects in the Applied Health Sciences | |
| Initial Scale Development | |
| Sample Size for Pilot Studies | |
| Using Power Tables to Compute Statistical Power in Multilevel Experimental Designs | |
| Effects of Question Format and Collection Mode on the Accuracy of Retrospective Surveys of Health Risk Behavior | |
| a Comparison with Daily Sexual Activity Diaries | |
| The Accuracy and Completeness of Stat Collected by Prospective and Retrospective Methods | |
| Using Cluster Analysis in Program Evaluation | |
| Comparison of Two Approaches for Handling Missing Covariates in Logistic Regression | |
| Aggregate versus Individual-Level Sexual Behavior Assessment | |
| How Much Detail Is Needed to Accurately Estimate HIV/Sti Risk? | |
| Using the Binomial Effect Size Display (BESD) to Present the Magnitude of Effect Sizes to the Evaluation Audience | |
| Strategies for Improving Precision in Group-Randomized Experiments | |
| a Randomized Trial of Mail, Internet and Interactive Voice Response Telephone Administration of Surveys | |
| Issues, Challenges and Solutions in Translating Study Instruments | |
| Case Studies | |
| An Outcome Evaluation of the Sos Suicide Prevention Program | |
| Surgical and Non-Surgical Management of Lumbar Spinal Stenosis | |
| The Impact of Federal Bio-Terrorism Funding Programs on Local Health Department Preparedness Activities | |
| a Propensity Score Analysis of Brief Worksite Crisis Interventions after the World Trade Center Disaster | |
| Implications for Intervention and Research | |
| a Process Evaluation of an Injury Prevention School-Based Program for Adolescents | |
| Does the Implementation of Responsibility Centers, Total Quality Management and Physician Fee Programs Improve Hospital Efficiency? Evidence from Taiwan Hospitals | |
| Five-Year Impact of a Continuous Quality Improvement Effort Implemented by a Network of Diabetes Outpatient Clinics - Club Diabette Sicili Investigators | |
| Evaluating an Integrated Approach to Clinical Quality Improvement | |
| Clinical Guidelines, Quality Measurement and Supportive System Design | |
| Improvements in Middle School Student Dietary Intake after Implementation of the Texas Public School Nutrition Policy | |
| Short-Term Impact Evaluation of a Social Marketing Campaign to Prevent Syphilis among Men Who Have Sex with Men | |
| Process Evaluation of a Cluster Randomized Trial of Tailored Interventions to Implement Guidelines in Primary Care | |
| Why Is It so Hard to Change Practice? | |
| Improving Diabetes Care Using a Multitiered Quality Improvement Model | |
| The Short-Term Impact of National Smoke-Free Workplace Legislation on Passive Smoking and Tobacco Use | |
| Evaluation for Treatment Programs for Persons with Severe Mental Illness | |
| Moderator and Mediator Effects | |
| Economic Evaluation of Four Treatments for Low-Back Pain | |
| Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial | |
| The Staffing-Outcomes Relationship in Nursing Homes | |
| An Instrumental Variable Analysis of the Impact of Practice Guidelines on Improving Quality of Care and Diabetes-Related Outcomes in the Elderly Medicare Population | |
| Impact of Restricted Reimbursement on the Use of Statins in Finland | |
| a Register-Based Study | |
| An Impact Evaluation of a Federal Mine Safety Training Regulation on Injury Rates among U.S. Stone, Sand and Gravel Mine Workers | |
| An Interrupted Time-Series Analysis | |
| Survival Advantage Associated with Treatment of Injury at Designated Trauma Centers | |
| a Bivariate Probit Model with Instrumental Variables | |
| The Impact of Private and Public Health Insurance on Medication Use for Adults with Chronic Diseases | |
| The Effectiveness of Child Restraint Systems for Children Aged Three Years or Younger during Motor Vehicle Collisions | |
| 1996 to 2005 | |
| Process Evaluation of a Multi-Institutional Community-Based Program for Diabetes Prevention among First Nations | |
| The Experience of Living with Diabetes Following a Self-Management Program Based on Motivational Interviewing | |
| Is Access Sufficient? An Examination of the Effects of the MedShare Program to Expand Access to Prescription Drugs for Indigent Populations | |
| The Social Construction of Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) in South African Communities | |
| Effects of a Community-Based, Professionally Supervised Intervention on Physical Activity Levels among Residents of Recife, Brazil | |
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