Monitoring

Monitoring and impact assessment are two major forms of evaluation. Actually, monitoring may also concern potential outcomes, whether immediate, intermediate, or ultimate. However, if questions are raised concerning the causes of outcomes, then we are doing impact assessment. Much thought on evaluation assumes that only one theory underlies each undertaking. This is usually wrong. Along with initial framers of an intervention, other stakeholders may also hold presuppositions about an intervention&s;s aims and effects. The intervention theory is supposed to provide guidance when the monitor decides at which stages empirical checks will be performed. The idea is that the intervention is predicated on a number of preconditions that must be met in order that it be effective. It is the task of monitoring to reconstruct these preconditions and investigate whether they have been realized. Documentary methods involve the use of data amassed by others in the form of statistics.

Computer Science · Hemodynamic Monitoring and Therapy