The advantage of the Delphi methodology is based on the possibility to evaluate complex issues during various evaluation rounds.
The position of economic evaluation within the new Medical Research Council framework for evaluating complex interventions will then be illustrated.
However, realist evaluation methodologies are now established in public health for evaluating complex programmes.
The framework for developing and evaluating complex interventions outlines a cycle of development, feasibility/piloting, evaluation and implementation phases [ 20].
The Medical Research Council framework for developing and evaluating complex interventions 49 was used to guide the development and evaluation of Coping-Together.
It will be the first to evaluate complex interventions separately and combined, that focus on the biomedical evaluation of the illness and patient centered communication.
Evaluating complex interventions involves determining both whether and how they work; such evaluations are theoretically and practically complex.
It is also an extraordinary insight into how we evaluate complex decisions.
Doctors say they need to police expert testimony partly because juries cannot evaluate complex medical information and may be easily won over by a smooth-talking lawyer.
But the officials responsible for investing the giant pension funds of today must evaluate complex derivatives and hedging strategies not dreamed of a generation ago.
