Realism and resources
Towards more explanatory economic evaluation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12567889 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rob Anderson (0000-0002-3523-8559, University of Exeter Medical School, UK, corresponding author), Rebecca Hardwick (0000-0002-2488-829X, University of Exeter Medical School, UK) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 323-341 |
| Publication date | 2016-06-11 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Evaluation (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1356-3890 • E-ISSN: 1461-7153 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1356389016652742 |
| PMID | 27478402 |
| OpenAlex | W2372137115 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 33 |
To be successfully and sustainably adopted, policy-makers, service managers and practitioners want public programmes to be affordable and cost-effective, as well as effective. While the realist evaluation question is often summarised as what works for whom, under what circumstances, we believe the approach can be as salient to answering questions about resource use, costs and cost-effectiveness - the traditional domain of economic evaluation methods. This paper first describes the key similarities and differences between economic evaluation and realist evaluation. It summarises what health economists see as the challenges of evaluating complex interventions, and their suggested solutions. We then use examples of programme theory from a recent realist review of shared care for chronic conditions to illustrate two ways in which realist evaluations might better capture the resource requirements and resource consequences of programmes, and thereby produce explanations of how they are linked to outcomes (i.e. explanations of cost-effectiveness)
Critical realism (philosophy of perception · Economic evaluation · Economics · Epistemology · Management science · Microeconomics · Positive economics · Psychological intervention · Public economics · Realism · Resource (disambiguation · Salient · Sociology · Sustainability · Computer Science · Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life · Healthcare Policy and Management · Primary Care and Health Outcomes · Psychology
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Wrestling with the bottom line in medical education
Unpacking economic programme theory for supervision training
Expanding theory-based evaluation
Toward collaborative cost-inclusive evaluation
Balancing the effectiveness and cost of online education
Bringing together realist and economic approaches in the evaluation of health and social care interventions
Economic evaluation of participation in Community Led Organisations for individuals living in disadvantaged areas in the UK
How is process tracing applied in health research? A systematic scoping review
Cost–benefit analysis and ‘next best’ methods to evaluate the efficiency of social policies
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The Science of Evaluation
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Complex interventions or complex systems? Implications for health economic evaluation
Process evaluation of complex interventions
Treatment Costs, Cost Offset, and Cost-Effectiveness of Collaborative Management of Depression
Nothing as Practical as a Good Theory
Studying the Organisation and Delivery of Health Services
Unpacking Black Boxes
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| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2.4 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |